Questions tagged [synchronization]
Use this tag when the topic is related to coordinating systems to have the same data or state or time. It can be part of redundancy.
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Keep two entire Linux desktop systems in sync
I have a laptop PC that I use for everyday tasks. I mainly use my PC for software development (so lots of git repos + IDE + development tools), browsing... lots of different stuff actually. I'm using ...
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How to implement a Linux Cloud Storage sync with placeholder files
On Windows, Microsoft offers their Cloud Filter API (parts of which are implemented in the Windows Kernel as the CldFlt Windows Cloud Files Mini Filter Driver), which provides for an interface for ...
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unison start the sync from zero when I change the parent folder
I use unison to sync two folders that are in separate computers (via unison command with ssh). If for convenience I happen to change the name of the parent folder, unison start to sync the folders as ...
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How to perform purely software based time synchronization using PTP?
My two machines do not support hardware timestamping: ethtool -T eno1 Time stamping parameters for eno1: Capabilities: software-transmit software-receive software-system-clock PTP Hardware ...
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Boot Delays on PowerPC Board with RTC Clock and hwclock --hctosys Command Related to Kernel Configurations
I am working on a PowerPC board using kernel version 4.1.35 and encountering significant boot delays, specifically around the RTC clock (ds-1337) operations. During the boot process, a script (hwclock....
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On a fresh machine, which should come first the syncing of dotfiles or installation of their libraries?
This is a bit of a newbie question but I'm only starting out my journey with dotfiles! Suppose I have a fresh machine and I want to sync my existing dotfiles/settings from some repo. A dotfile may or ...
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RPM upgrade two servers with same packages on different days
I have two servers called test and prod and they have exactly the same packages installed. On day 1 I dnf upgrade server test and then test if the installation vent good. If the test vent good I do an ...
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chrony immediate time sync
Running RHEL-8.9 I have a handful+ servers in a computer lab, which do not have an internet connection and [currently] have no means of fetching any kind of stratum-0 type time. We therefore manually ...
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