[support] Drupal files synchronization

Gastón Pablo Pérez gpperez at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 16:15:16 UTC 2009


>> Hi all,
>>
>> My company is using 3 Drupal servers with load balancer to distribute the
>> load.
>> The problem is the files in sites/default/files folder need to be
>> synchronized
>> among these 3 Drupal servers.
>>
>> I am thinking of using rsync for this purpose but I heard rsync may not be
>> the
>> best way to do it since it shouldn't delete the files so the number of files
>> will
>> grow quickly.
>>
>> Has anybody used rsync to synchronize the files?
>> Is there a better method to synchronize files in sites/default/files?
>>
>> Thank you in advance!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Ivan
>>
>>
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Maybe you can also consider to share only the directory
sites/default/files from the principal server by NFS and mount only
this directory on the other two servers. In this way the changes are
available intermediately.


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