Mirroring / distributing large amounts of data

[Daniel Riek]

Hi,

we are using Cfengine in a environment where we need to copy large
amounts of data from one machine to another. There are mainly to
scenarios: software distribution (rpm packages and tarballs) and
mirroring for a failover cluster.

One way would be to use RSync. That is what we would do in this environment
if we had no Cfengine. But as we have some security issues and rsync
would require at least a minimal root acces from the mirroring machine,
we would prefere to use Cfengine.

Another reason for using Cfengine to copy the data is the possibility to
have services restarted depending on the copy...

Unfortunately Cfengine seems to be very slow when doing such things.
This raises the question if anyone else tried to use Cfengine in this
manner and what his experience is like?

Thanks in advance for any hints.

Regards,

Daniel

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