Hi Alvin, If you were able to upgrade to version 1.4, it includes a checksum checker. This runs by cron job, and checks the checksums of the files are consistent with the checksums held in the database. Any inconsistencies are flagged up and sent to the administrator by email. This would ensure that the files held on each of your servers is not only identical, but is identical to the original file uploaded (in case it got corrupted before being copied to your second server).
http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/DigitalPreservationToolsAndStrategies Hope this helps, Stuart _________________________________________________________________ Datblygydd Cymwysiadau'r We Web Applications Developer Gwasanaethau Gwybodaeth Information Services Prifysgol Cymru Aberystwyth University of Wales Aberystwyth E-bost / E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ffon / Tel: (01970) 622860 _________________________________________________________________ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hutchinson, Alvin Sent: 18 February 2007 01:04 To: [email protected] Subject: [Dspace-tech] Data integrity/preservation issues and mirroringdevelopment-production servers We are running DSpace 1.3.2 on development and production servers. We intend to submit content to the first server (behind the firewall) and mirror the contents to the second server via database dump/restore and assetstore copy via filesync (or rsync). My question: is there some way of ensuring data integrity or validity in copying the assetstore files? I'm sure there are other sites with a similar setup and it occurs to me that a simple file copy is prone to loss or undetected corruption. No? Anyone have any best practices they'd like to share regarding mirroring? Thanks in advance, ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDE V _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
