On 03/17/2010 04:49 PM, David Richardson wrote: > On Wed, 17 Mar 2010, Jess Cannata wrote: > > >> We currently update our public mirror from one other mirror site because >> that site has the DVD ISOs, which we want, and the site is also on >> Internet2. This works well for us except if there is an issue with the >> other mirror. How do the rest of you handle rsync'ing from multiple >> mirrors? I can think of a few ways to handle it, but none of my >> approaches seem to be very elegant. >> >> Thanks for any tips. >> >> Jess >> >> P.S. Forgive me if this has already been addressed on the list. I >> searched some of the mailing list archives, but did not find what I was >> looking for. >> > > I can think of two approaches: > > 1) sync from server1 (without using --delete), then sync from server2 > (with --delete). The downsides of this are that you're always churing > through two mirrors, and that, if server1 has something new before > server2, the sync from server2 would delete the new content. > > 2) Use an "or" in your sync. This would only trigger the sync from server2 > if the sync from server1 fails. This option would be much less likely to > ping-pong on new content. > > DR > > Thanks for the ideas. Jess