Mirror Your Web Site With rsync (HowtoForge)

[Posted May 22, 2006 by cook]

HowtoForge mirrors a website with rsync. "This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror. Thus your backup server should usually be up to date if it has to take over."