[Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread Benjamin Ryan
Hi, Does anybody have any info on best/good practice for building and then deploying DSpace. I have a setup as follows: 1. Build server - setup only to build and test DSpace from source 2. Staging server - when build passes all tests it will be

Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread helix84
Hi Benjamin, sounds like solid standard practice to me. The only thing I don't like about it is your 1 rsync/day vs. mirrored DB. That will cause inaccessible bistreams for items added in the last day. So a) either reduce the DB contents transfer to 1/day b) or try using some mechanism for live

Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread Benjamin Ryan
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Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread helix84
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Benjamin Ryan benjamin.r...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Thanks I will take a look at lsyncd. That was just an example, you may want to search for similiar options in your distribution's repository. One other question: I will have configs for both

Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread Benjamin Ryan
-- -Original Message- From: ivan.ma...@gmail.com [mailto:ivan.ma...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of helix84 Sent: 18 September 2012 11:58 To: Benjamin Ryan Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace On Tue

Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread helix84
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Benjamin Ryan benjamin.r...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Don't think I made myself clear, each server will have its own dspace.cfg setup for the initial deployment and then the rsync should just copy over what has changed in the core API and modules but not

Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread helix84
Ben, would you care to document your practices on a wiki page? We don't have such page yet, it could be very useful for some beginners. Especially the processes and techniques for moving code from dev-staging-prod; are you using git branches? patches? shared directories? rsync? How often do you

Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread Terry Brady
I think the page that you propose creating would be very helpful. I have been using DSpace for about 3 months. I would have found such an overview very helpful. Here is a summary of the process that I am using, and it has proven to be very helpful so far. I will be glad to share more details

Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace

2012-09-18 Thread Benjamin Ryan
To: Benjamin Ryan Cc: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Dspace-tech] Best (good) practice for building/deploying DSpace Ben, would you care to document your practices on a wiki page? We don't have such page yet, it could be very useful for some beginners. Especially the processes