jlc wrote: > John 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. > > They all mirror to this one file server based on a snapshot they take at > that time as the data is constantly changing. <snip> > Dropping the jobs via ssh into 'at' for example would be nice if only 'at' > sequentially executed the job queue. > > Batch still might execute more than one job at a time, correct? The qjob > script looks promising... Coming into this late in the thread... you can, or cannot, do more than one rsync from each machine at a time? 'Bout a year ago, I wrote a perl script that had threads, and the number of concurrent jobs was merely a variable that I set. A cron job that ran that would do you, I think. mark