I guess the above approach is fine if you have basic requirements from a
repository manager and are willing to go for one that:

- Treats artifacts as just files, discarding any extra metadata that cannot
be maintained using the file system, such as: who deployed an artifact, how
many times it has been downloaded, inter-artifact dependencies etc.
- Does not need security and therefore does not have to deal with storage of
ACLs.
- Does not need atomic/transactional deployments and/or concurrency controls
and willing to live with the chance of being left with half baked
deployments.

BTW, the latest Artifactory achieves HA by using *only* DB replication (not
a combination of DB and FS). HA and ACID usually go together and Artifactory
is doing it.

Yoav Landman
The Artifactory Project Lead


Jason van Zyl-2 wrote:
> 
> It's twice as hard then simply replicating a file system. Try in a  
> large organization getting DBAs and the sysadmins synced up. It's just  
> easier replicating the filesystem. Less moving parts equals better.
> 
> On 11-Apr-08, at 12:39 PM, Nick Stolwijk wrote:
>> I know Archiva is run on a JCR (JackRabbit) repository. I've setup a  
>> Jackrabbit cluster on a clustered oracle database. (So twice  
>> clustering, one for the repo, one for the db). I think it shouldn't  
>> be too hard to implement this with Archiva also.
>>
>> Hth,
>>
>> Nick S.
>>
>> Jason van Zyl wrote:
>>> Not Archiva but Nexus where the disk uses Raid 5 which is then a  
>>> network mount. The data and artifacts are shared between two  
>>> instances of Nexus and they sit behind a VIP. If the primary goes  
>>> down then the VIP flips over to the second instance that's running.  
>>> With Nexus it's simple disk replication so you could do lower tech  
>>> solutions using rsync, or not so low tech as there are tools that  
>>> do disk replication at near wire speeds. But the VIP approach has  
>>> worked for us.
>>>
>>> On 11-Apr-08, at 8:52 AM, Matthew Tordoff wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have experience in setting up Archiva in a highly  
>>>> available manner? What is the best considered approach for doing  
>>>> this? Is it possible to replicate deployments to a server across  
>>>> all other servers in a cluster? Are there any options for  
>>>> automatic failover?
>>>>
>>>> Any advice or pointers on this would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Kind Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Matt T
>>>>
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>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Jason
>>>
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> 
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