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try running it with only the cpu and a single stick of ram (no gpu, no peripherals) or swap out the cmos battery.

You could use "rsync" on the command line of your mac to test it manually, then write a bash script if you have figured it out. EDIT: what do you mean host computer? does it run NFS/CIFS to share a directory? what do you mean by master directory? is only one computer allowed to write on it and the clients have read only access? could you possibly get a NAS to solve this problem?