[plug] Constant rsync'ing...

[Denis Brown]

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Trevor Phillips wrote:

> We run rsync from server to server to keep everything the same on all servers. 
> We used to do this every 5 minutes. We now do it every 15 minutes. It's a 
> performance hit! Lots of filesystem scanning and comparing, just to copy a 
> couple of small altered files across.

CODA perhaps?  I briefly had a look at it six+ months ago in response to
some kind suggestions from PLUG members, when I was asking about high
availability systems.   Soon I will have some hardware upon which I can
"play" with this technology.  In my case I have physically distributed
sites where I'd like to place my servers.  I have to be bandwidth-friendly
so, apart from the initial hit while they sync up, I got the impression
that CODA was quite meagre on resources.   Not having implemented it yet,
I am very willing to be corrected :-)

Cheers,
Denis