On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:47:10AM +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > >If you could explain a bit more in detail it would be a lot clearer on > >what you really want. The drawback is if you cron job it on every node > >you must have a precise time server for ntp on the local subnet or your > >effectively PPPing in the wind. > > John, > They all mirror to this one file server based on a snapshot they take at > that time as the data is constantly changing. > > Once they all complete their mirror to this file server, that file server > is then instructed by ssh with key auth to rsync that data set remotely. > > The file server can handle any number of local dumps on to it, but if more > than 1 local machine instructs it to rsync remotely, that is where the trouble > starts. Looks like a FIFO. It may work by feeding the commands through a named pipe to a script that just waits for them and executes one at a time. Mihai