Distributing static content

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 11:50:04AM -0400, Jason Watson wrote:
> Gaddis, Jeremy L. wrote:
> >>We've got a whole pool of sysadmins on this list.  How do you deal 
> >>with these issues in your current environments?
> >
> >Across a pool of web servers in a cluster, we use rsync over SSH ...
> >.....  rsync is initiated on the "non-master" nodes 
> 
> And I have done the opposite:  Set up a script on the master to run 
> multiple parallel rsync's pushing content out to the target servers. 
> This was an on-demand content push, rather than an automatic replication 
> of changes.  It worked very well for many years.

This is what we do for linux.dell.com and several internal servers.

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Matt Domsch
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