>>>>> " " == wfrancis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Fellow rsyncers,
> I have many large farms of machines. Currently, on each farm,
> there is a single master machine which replicates a directory
> tree out to all the slaves.
> The problems is that this can take quite a while given the size
> of files and numbers of clients. I'm curious about ways of
> doing this over multicast.
You need to gather all checksums of all clients and then check which
groups of clients should get the same data. Of cause if they are all
identical, you can just give all of them the same data.
Happy coding though.
> Are there any good ways of combining rsync and multicast? I
> took a look at rsync+, but seem to ride over mftp, for which I
> have not been able to find a working implementation of.
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> Will
MfG
Goswin
