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RE: how can I not have to spend 40 minutes _waiting_ in themorningfor ea


From: eric.berg
Subject: RE: how can I not have to spend 40 minutes _waiting_ in themorningfor each of 40 updates?
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 10:13:26 -0400

Hi, Chaitanya,
 
If the primary goal of this exercize is to get a copy of the same files onto each machine, then rync (http://rsync.samba.org) may well be the right tool for the job.  I've used rsync for many years now to address a number of issues from syncing source trees on multiple machines to deploying static content and even for backups to remote machines.  It supports ssh and compression.  I consider it to be fundamental to my toolkit, right behind ssh and perl.
 
I recommend that you do some research into how long it takes to rsync on a few days with varying degrees of change in your code.  The first thing that rsync does it to assess the files on both sides in order to determine what needs to be copied.  This can be an expensive operation -- in fact, the most expensive part for minor changes.  It may
 
While it can do partial file diffs, it may be a good ide to set it to transfer entire files ( -W param).  Compression is an option to be explored as well.  There are a number of options that might work to optimize this.
 
Also, and I've never done this, but it may be helpful to add a level to the distribution by first distributing to a set of machines that then push to the others to spread out the load.  Consider geography here to minimize bandwidth.
 
And one more point that I'll make:  I've run into some barriers when attempting to rsync directory structures with many files ( > 60,000).  Rsync croaked, so I wrote a short script to break it out by doing an separate rsync for individual top-level directories.  This may or may not be an issue, and it may actually reduce the overall time it takes to do the rysnc. YMMV.
 
Helpful rsync development params:
 
-n - dry run.  no files are changed.
-stats - as you would expect....
--progress
 
Eric


From: S Chaitanya [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 9:50 AM
To: Berg, Eric
Cc: address@hidden; address@hidden
Subject: Re: how can I not have to spend 40 minutes _waiting_ in themorningfor each of 40 updates?

Hi Eric,

I have the code on 40 different machines from the trunk or t-o-t or head or whatever you call it. So, no different branches involved here. I will have a go at understanding rsync and using it for syncing the changed files from 1 machine to the 39 others.

Btw, did you ever try this or run into similar problems?

Regards,
Chaitanya

On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:06 PM, <address@hidden> wrote:
Has the suggestion to use rsync been raised here?  I'm not sure if
you're updating to different branches for the various platforms, but
exporting to one or a few locations and then running rsync to transfer
just the diffs without having to repeatedly go back to CVS might be a
workable solution.

As for time servers, you'll want to sync to several servers.  NTP's
algorithm takes travel time into account, though closer is better.

Eric

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