Re: [cobalt-developers] StaQWare

["John P. Looney" <valen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:16:35AM -0500, Chris Briede mentioned:
> Do you know of another solution for the xtr?
> Thanks for the help.

 Depending on what you are looking for, rsync may help. It's a most
excellent tool for ensuring that two directories have the same data.

 A previous company I worked for actually had a finished product that
would replace staqware (to an extent), in that it ran rsync over ssh 
from cron, to make sure two raq4's had the same web content.

 The problem is that if you have gigabytes of data, it could take twenty
minutes to scan everything, and make sure it's all copied (though it then
only copied the parts of the files that were changed). On the plus side,
if one host fails, you aren't left for 10 minutes or so while staqware
does and fsck on the slave machine.

 I'm sure with a small amount of time, you could make up a few rsync-based
scripts to do what you need.

Kate