On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:13:30PM -0800, Michelle Storm wrote: > I am just after suggestions on the best and/or most efficient means to > mirror my website (exactly) from one location to another (currently on > same computer, but eventually multiple computers).
Consider using version control (CVS or Subversion are the obvious candidates). Your working and live directories can just be checkouts, and it's easy to do 'cvs up' or 'svn up' from cron every day for the live site. Plus you get history for free. All you have to do is occasionally check in what you've done. Subversion tracks renames, unlike CVS. I use it for my web site and much of my home directory. However it's still considered alpha and in heavy development, so it's perhaps not to everyone's taste just yet. Neither of these handle permissions or symlinks yet. You can probably do these using .htaccess files just as easily, or perhaps with a Makefile. > A few things to keep in mind. > 1) LIVE has a different "owner:group" than WORKING. Trivial if they're both working copies of a repository; LIVE just does the checkout as a different uid and gid. > 2) If I move/rename files or diretories, I need this updated. In CVS you'll have to 'cvs rm' the old file and 'cvs add' the new one (well, there are other tricks if you need to preserve history more elegantly than that). In Subversion you can 'svn mv'. Both will be tracked in working copies when they're updated. > 3) It only has to update once every 24 hours. <- Probably cron to do this. Easy - see above. (Incidentally, if you go for CVS, you'll be able to move the repository into Subversion later when that becomes stable.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
