rdist in production

[hpuxrox]

Has anyone see rdist used in a production enviroment?

I have used the command before and think its the greatest thing sense sliced bread. I would like to implement it in our enviroment to keep duplicate files in sync across our network.

I guess my question is...
Can anyone think of any known issue with using rdist or give some sort of busness justifcation for not using it.

Thanks,

Yates

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Yates,

If you have large files over 2 gb don't use rdist it will not supported. If you have sun / hp /other make sure you have same version.

If you have only HP then it is great tool. I use rdit to backup my 30 server's important stuff (from hp to sun) . It is fast and efficient. Whenever I need that data back from sun to HP I use cpio because of version mismatch it want work on sun.

If you have option to use rsync then use that. it is better and faster then rdist.

Thanks
Sachin

[hpuxrox]

We are strictly a hpux shop here. I will not be using it for 2GB files, only configuration files. rsync is not an option, being that is its external software "not supported".

[A. Clay Stephenson]

It's a good tool. My only possible objection is using it for passwd, group, services, hosts, .... things for which NIS/NIS+ is a better answer.

[Sandip Ghosh]

We are also using rdist in our production environment. We are copying data from the production system to another system to keep a backup copy. Rdist has been set on the cron and at the end of the day it copies the data from one server to the other. In our case we are excluding the various log files from copying.

Sandip

[hpuxrox]

Thanks Clay

Yes we are using NIS for that. This would be for files like ntp.conf for example.

[Sachin Patel]

Hi Yates,
Attached is the script that creates config file krakenpee (rdist config file) It requires kraken_include and kraken_exclude file. Include and exclude file does what is's name suggest.
kraken is the system where I saves my data.

I run this script on all of my server.
It is not very well script but will gives you starting point.

Sachin