On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 22:14:25 +0800 (CST), Stephen Liu wrote:

> > but I still don't
> > see
> > why you need real-time mirroring. A script to sync the drive before
> > unmounting would give you an accurate mirror. A cron script to check
> > if
> > the drive is mounted and sync it every hour would cut down on the
> > amount
> > of data to sync when unmounting.  
> 
> If running sync periodically on poweroff the PC there will be some
> files not yet updated.  

Shutdown involves unmounting the drive, and I recommended syncing before
unmounting.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Modulation in all things.