On 3/1/2010 1:18 PM, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
Hi all, I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to members inside a webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for quite a while. Customer needs the upload status be confirmed everytime and data will be verified later easily when in need. Is there one or more popular tools available for this purposes? open source is preferred, but commercial ones are fine too as long as price
Rsync over ssh is about as good as it gets for remotely updating files. If they can assemble a tree that matches the directory structure, 'rsync -av' will show a list of files that are different (and thus updated) and you can repeat it if you want - no output means the remote side is identical.
You'd probably really want to wrap this with a version control system like subversion to get history, logging, rollback capability, etc. so the changes would be made in one or more working copies, committed to the subversion repository, then updated in a staging copy (where you might do some tests and sanity checking) and then the staging copy would be pushed to the real servers with rsync.