This is because of the way the update process works. It's an all or nothing deal really. When you trigger an update, the hldsupdatetool will report the current version of the installation to the update servers. Then it recieves a list of all the files that should be outdated and need to be thrown away and redownloaded.
So even though your individual mapfiles are already up-to-date, the second hlds installation still reports and older version to the update servers, which then assumes the files need to be reaquired. I don't think there is an easy way to 'fix' this, since it's not really broken, just a design choice. In my case I just run all my TF2 server from one installation, exec'ing different config files from the cfg folder, depending on the type of server I want to run. I've also turned autoupdate off, so there won't be multiple update processes started at an update. When an update goes live I just shut down all the servers, run one update and then start the servers again. Of course, I'm running it all on Linux, but that shouldn't matter much, on windows you could just save the startup lines in batch scripts or notepad or whatever. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:46 PM, GE <[email protected]> wrote: > Recently I've added symlinks on my TF2 servers to save space and reduced > bandwidth on updates, however this does not seem to help when using > hldsupdatetool. > > At this point only the "maps" folder has been linked. > > Server 1 (master) update runs as expected. > Server 2 (slave) update runs but deletes files previously downloaded and > re-downloads them.... ie latest tf2 update 4 maps that were updated, each > slave server then removes and re-downloads mvm_decoy (etc). > > Should the update not see that the maps are the latest version and don't need > to be replaced? Or am I missing a symlink somewhere else? > > Windows server 2008r2 > > Thanks, > > GE > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds -- Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
