I know Artifactory is built upon Jackrabbit. Maybe you can cluster the
underlying Jackrabbit instance? Take a look at clustering,
http://wiki.apache.org/jackrabbit/Clustering.

Hth,

Nick Stolwijk
~Java Developer~

Iprofs BV.
Claus Sluterweg 125
2012 WS Haarlem
www.iprofs.nl



On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Matthew Tordoff
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have recently been doing some investigation into making Artifactory
> Highly Available, and to be honest am having difficulty in finding an
> acceptable solution. To date the only solution I have found is having a
> 'cluster' of 2 Artifactory repositories which are load balanced. Each
> repository is then made to use the other as a proxy, so if a request for
> an artifact fails it searches in the repository of the other node.
>
> The problems I see with this approach are as follows:
>
> 1) There will be situations where losing one node will leave you with an
> incomplete set of artifacts. This will be when an artifact has been
> deployed to node X, and not yet requested from node Y - thus pulling it
> into it's local cache.
>
> 2) The second problem, similar to the first, is after a SNAPSHOT of
> artifact X has been deployed to node 1, and later requested from node 2,
> an updated version of that SNAPSHOT is then deployed to node 1. When a
> further request of that SNAPSHOT is made, the result of the request will
> be unknown - you could get one of the two different versions of the
> SNAPSHOT.
>
> 3) The security settings need to be maintained manually across the two
> nodes (potentially 3/4 if you include DR as well - and for our internal
> 20-30 different areas within the repository this is a huge overhead.)
>
> I have heard mumblings about the use of MySQL and it's replication
> abilities, however, have not seen any documented way to make use of
> these.
>
> If anyone has any further information on this topic then it would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Matt Tordoff
>
> P.S. If there is no solution for Artifactory, is there a solution for
> any other product e.g. Archiva?
>
>
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