[Support-admins] Making a mirroring change

[Tom Copeland]

OK, I've rewritten the script and the rsync from the new location is
running now... 

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Copeland [mailto:tom at infoether.com] 
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 2:16 PM
> To: 'support-admins at rubyforge.org'
> Subject: Making a mirroring change
> 
> 
> Hi Dennis and all -
> 
> Hey, I'm going to make a file mirroring change on the 
> rubyforge end.  Here's the way it works now:
> 
> - every 20 minutes a script checks the /var/www/gforge-files 
> directory to see if there are any new files
> - if there are, it uses cp -u to copy the file into a 
> parallel directory tree at /usr/local/mirror/ 
> - then it hits the /sync URL, the files get sync'd out, etc
> 
> Here's what I want to change it to:
> 
> - every 20 minutes the script will do a du -sk on 
> /var/www/gforge-files and compare it to a cached version in a file
> - if the result changes, hit the sync script
> 
> So I need to rewrite my script and point the "file-mirror" 
> rsync to /var/www/gforge-files vs /usr/local/mirror.
> 
> This will save about of 5 GB disk space on rubyforge, and 
> more importantly it will reduce disk I/O as I'll need to do 
> less scanning.  It'll also fix this bug:
> 
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=5286&group_id=5&a
tid=101

I don't think you'll see any changes on your end, so just kind of wanted
to let you and anyone else on this list know what was going on.
Comments/questions welcome,

Yours,

Tom