[Zope] replication (was Zope: 5.4, jboss 0.3 million hits with google)

[Paul Winkler]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 09:01:37AM +0800, Bakhtiar A Hamid wrote:
> On Thursday 13 February 2003 04:51, Paul Winkler wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 11:26:05AM -0800, Jack Park wrote:
> > > ... Theoretically speaking, JBoss has tackled the scalability
> > > issues. I have yet to find that Zope has done the same.
> >
> > A ZEO cluster running behind Squid...
> > if that's not fault-tolerant or distributed enough,
> > use DirectoryStorage and have automated replication of multiple ZEO
> > clusters. Theoretically this could scale to really enormous amounts of data
> > serving enormous numbers of users.
> 
> how can we replicate with DirStorage?  would you mind doing a little brain 
> dump?  with rsync?

I am not really the person to ask, as I haven't actually done it.
But here's the official way to do it as of version 1.1: 
http://dirstorage.sourceforge.net/replica.html

I would naively assume that you *should* be able to replicate by
1) putting the "master" into snapshot mode
2) running rsync
3) taking the "master" out of snapshot mode

... but there may be hidden issues with that; I would kind of
assume so, since Toby Dickenson bothered to write the replication
tool.  Toby, are you reading this? Care to comment?


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