wonderful!
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Rolf Huehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Hanson wrote:
> > ok, that's checked in.
> >
> > Now we need a system to ensure these are synced well. What do you
> recommend?
> >
> On your side it is very easy. Just check in any changes with 'svn' as
> soon as possible.
>
> On the mirror side it is also not very complicated.
>
> On Linux/Unix systems it is very easy to run scripts periodically.
> The script could run a "svn update" command once or twice a day (or
> whatever frequency we decide is appropriate).
>
> I would not recommend to run the "svn update" command directly on the
> directory that is used by the mirror web server. If anything goes wrong
> with the svn command it might break the mirror.
>
> So usually I maintain 3 copies:
>
> 1) the directory used by "svn update" (mirror)
> 2) the directory used by the web server (current)
> 3) a second directory on the web server (new)
>
> If there was any change in the "mirror" directory then the content of
> "mirror" is synced with "new". For large amounts of data with little
> changes I usually use the "rsync" command for this. But since the
> documentation is currently only ~500MB a simple copy command might be
> sufficient.
>
> After syncing to "new" is finished there are done some consistency
> checks. If no errors were detected "current" is renamed finally to "old"
> and "new" is renamed to "current". Besides being able to do error
> checking this method also avoids intermediate states within the mirror
> where some files are old and some are new.
>
> At the beginning of the next update "old" is renamed to "new" so that
> "rsync" must only update it.
>
> I will set up this next week for our mirror.
>
> Regards,
> Rolf
>
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