<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Ivan,<div><br></div><div>I would think that rsync would be a good way to do this with a good bit of testing. If a user deletes a file, rsync could delete it on the other servers. You would still rely on daily backups in case something goes wrong or a user deletes something they should not have deleted. </div><div><br></div><div>I have used rysnc, but not for several prod servers behind a load balancer. I have used it to sync sites/site.com/files between prod, test and dev and it does work. rsync has many command switches so make sure to read up on it and set it up with the switches you need.</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div><div><br><div><div>On Oct 22, 2009, at 7:16 AM, Ivan Working wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; ">Hi all,<br><br>My company is using 3 Drupal servers with load balancer to distribute the load.<br>The problem is the files in sites/default/files folder need to be synchronized<br>among these 3 Drupal servers.<br><br>I am thinking of using rsync for this purpose but I heard rsync may not be the<br>best way to do it since it shouldn't delete the files so the number of files will<br>grow quickly.<code></code><br><br>Has anybody used rsync to synchronize the files?<br>Is there a better method to synchronize files in sites/default/files?<br><br>Thank you in advance!<br><br>Cheers,<br>Ivan<br><br><br><hr>New Windows 7: Find the right PC for you.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/shop" target="_new">Learn more.</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>[ Drupal support list |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://lists.drupal.org/">http://lists.drupal.org/</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>]</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>