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From: [email protected] [mailto:hlds-
[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rudy Bleeker
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 8:16 PM
To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list
Subject: Re: [hlds] Windows Server and symbolic links
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of all the files that should be outdated and need to be thrown away and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
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