CentOS - Mar 2010 - Inquery: popular upload tools for customer codes in use

Hi all,

?I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to?members inside
a?webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for quite a while. Customer
needs the upload status be confirmed everytime and data will be verified later
easily when in need.

?Is there one or more popular tools available for this purposes? open source is
preferred, but commercial ones are fine too as long as price is aceeptable.

?Thanks.

--Robinson


      
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On 3/1/2010 1:18 PM, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to members
> inside a webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for quite a
> while. Customer needs the upload status be confirmed everytime and data
> will be verified later easily when in need.
> Is there one or more popular tools available for this purposes? open
> source is preferred, but commercial ones are fine too as long as price
Rsync over ssh is about as good as it gets for remotely updating files. 
  If they can assemble a tree that matches the directory structure, 
'rsync -av' will show a list of files that are different (and thus 
updated) and you can repeat it if you want - no output means the remote 
side is identical.

You'd probably really want to wrap this with a version control system 
like subversion to get history, logging, rollback capability, etc. so 
the changes would be made in one or more working copies, committed to 
the subversion repository, then updated in a staging copy (where you 
might do some tests and sanity checking) and then the staging copy would 
be pushed to the real servers with rsync.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com

On Monday, March 01, 2010 1:14 PMLes Mikesell Wrote
>> Hi all,
>> I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to
members
>> inside a webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for quite 
>> a while. Customer needs the upload status be confirmed everytime and 
>> data will be verified later easily when in need.
>> Is there one or more popular tools available for this purposes? open 
>> source is preferred, but commercial ones are fine too as long as price
?
>Rsync over ssh is about as good as it gets for remotely updating files. 
>? If they can assemble a tree that matches the directory structure,
'rsync -av' will show a list of files that are different (and thus
>updated) and you can repeat it if you want - no output means the remote side
is identical.
?
Rsync over ssh doesn?t works but a little cumbersome ? customer?s servers? data
center are far away from development site and link between is slow. So better
one to data center?s one and from the latter to all others in data center. This
will work better but still could be improved. Since customer has some scripts to
be reloaded after codes/data are synced.
?
>You'd probably really want to wrap this with a version control system
like subversion to get history, logging, rollback capability, etc. so
?
Is there already an existing solution like this available, open source and
commercial?
?
Thanks.
?
--Robinson


      
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On 3/1/2010 4:31 PM, Robinson Tiemuqinke wrote:
>
>
>> > I've had a project to upload customer codes and some data to
members
>
>> > inside a webfarm, the upload work will be done almost daily for
quite
>
>> > a while. Customer needs the upload status be confirmed everytime
and
>
>> > data will be verified later easily when in need.
>
>> > Is there one or more popular tools available for this purposes?
open
>
>> > source is preferred, but commercial ones are fine too as long as
price
>
>>Rsync over ssh is about as good as it gets for remotely updating files.
>
>>  If they can assemble a tree that matches the directory structure,
> 'rsync -av' will show a list of files that are different (and thus
>
>>updated) and you can repeat it if you want - no output means the remote
> side is identical.
>
> Rsync over ssh doesn?t works but a little cumbersome ? customer?s
> servers? data center are far away from development site and link between
> is slow. So better one to data center?s one and from the latter to all
> others in data center. This will work better but still could be
> improved. Since customer has some scripts to be reloaded after
> codes/data are synced.
If ssh is set up for rsync, it is simple enough to add commands to run 
remotely in a script.
>>You'd probably really want to wrap this with a version control
system
> like subversion to get history, logging, rollback capability, etc. so
>
> Is there already an existing solution like this available, open source
> and commercial?
There are a lot of things called 'content management systems' that are 
basically web sites with upload/management capability built in (joomla, 
drupal, alfresco, etc.).  They aren't likely to work unless you start 
over from scratch with them for the web site design.  If you already 
have the sites in place you are probably better off setting up a 
subversion repository and a staging site at the data center with the 
servers (perhaps even running on one of them) and let the customers 
commit the changes to the repository with subversion client tools and 
work out a script that checks out a revision they specify into the 
staging area, rsync's to the server locations, and ssh's the needed 
commands.  The operations should be relatively simple and as easy to 
manage in shell scripts as some dedicated framework.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com