[smokeping-users] Re: Using Rsync

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: smokeping-users-bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch [mailto:smokeping-users-
> bounce at list.ee.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of King, Michael
> Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 1:47 PM
> To: Smokeping Users
> Subject: [smokeping-users] Re: Using Rsync
> 
> > /usr/bin/rsync -az --delete -W -e /usr/bin/ssh
> > /usr/local/smokeping/var/[some branch]
> > your.central.host:"/usr/local/smokeping/var/"
> >
> > We opted to use the -W (whole file) option since bandwidth
> > usage wasn't a consideration for us. I'm not sure if rsync's
> > partial file support works with rrd files so YMMV if you use
> > that. We sync 6G of rrd files every 3 hours using this method
> > and haven't had any problems in 3 years.
> 
> Ok, that's very similar to how we've gotten it working in testing by
> hand on the command line.
> 
> Do you execute it as a daemon (with --daemon), or do you script it
with
> cron?

It's executed out of cron. This happens to be in a simple shell script
but we've run it directly in the crontab as above too.

--
Marc

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