Concerning Re: Poor performance in windows. Switching back t
Les Mikesell wrote on 16 Feb 2007, 8:02, at least in part:
> Jan Hendrik wrote:
>
> >>> Maybe there are tools that handle this
> >>> just the other way round, but WS-FTP did not nor does
> >>> TotalCommander. Probably one could automize this with a post-
> >>> commit hook and rsync, but this also takes a lot of control out of
> >>> it.
> >> So do an 'rsync -av' yourself.
> >
> > At first sight rsync sounds fascinating, I have had a look at it in
> > the past and now again, but it is not for us.
>
> Try it before making that decision. It's free.
Yep, just kind of confirmed (in a telnet session) that rsync is
available on all the domains here, hopefully also for local-remote
connections. Will have to take a free weekend to get acquainted
with this stuff.
> If you used Linux for this, migration cost would be 1 so-so PC to run
> it
> plus free software. Or if you have sufficient CPU/RAM on an existing
>
> box you could run it under the free VMware server. You could let it
> run your subversion repository too - and be a samba file server for
> your windows boxes. But, the cywin version of rsync works fine.
Naw, the only so-so PC here is absolutely broken - museum-
quality. ;) A Samba server is what the NAS Linkstation is, but it
doesn't work for the main chunk of to-be-shared data here as Word
prevents any PC from standby/hibernation as long as a file on a
share is open. That's why I tried OpenOffice last year, but
migrating the 10-15% of docs that need manual attention would
keep me busy for months, plus rewriting several macros. Too
expensive.
> > have checked this only last year for just Word97->OpenOffice) and
> > running an OS layer (cygwin) on top of Windows is not very
> > intrigueing either.
>
> Intrigueing? It's just a dll library that maps unix system calls into
> the windows equivalents so the apps compile unchanged. You don't need
> all the other tools if you don't want them, although you probably need
> ssh which rsync will run transparently for you.
Understood cygwin as some virtual machine or layer, not just a
DLL.
> GUI's are pretty and nice for doing things once. If you do them
> repeatedly it is even nicer to have the job fully scripted so you
> don't have to use any interface - and the scripting is easy with
> command line tools.
Sure, did some scripting myself over the years and especially
lately, just don't feel comfortable about synching the webserver w/o
seeing what happens (or only afterwards from the output directed
into a file). Also would have to make sure that files generated by
scripts on the webserver (and only there) won't be deleted, now and
in future - automation often lets forget what is happening and then
one wastes hours and days to understand why something works
locally and not by cron on the remote server.
Anyway, lots of thanks, Les!
JH
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Received on Fri Feb 16 17:58:31 2007