[SourceJammer-users] Re: SourceJammer - server/repository synchronization

[Dan B. <db...@ge...>]

Rob,

Thanks for the information on SyncJammer.  It sounds wonderful!

I am working in a development environment that has 17 developers, hence the 
need for SourceJammer.  These developers work on any number of our 58 live 
sites.  My proposed synchronization is basically a way to lock down the live 
servers and only add files from a repository server (running SourceJammer) 
to the respective servers.

So, if I have a SourceJammer Client on the repository server, and can get 
actual files to synchronize with, I will be golden.  Of course, I need to 
keep the version control aspect, and don't want to have to manually update 
my repository files every time one of the developers adds files.  That being 
said, my ideal situation would be the following:
  - developer checks new files into SourceJammer
  - "something" causes the SourceJammer client on the repository server to 
update the actual files in its structure.
  - an application is launched that finds new and changed files and FTPs 
them to the server that they are associated with.

I am just trying to keep the developers from accessing the live servers 
directly while maintaining a versioning environment in case of file 
corruption or developer malfunction (bad code). :-)

Thanks again!

Cheers,

--Dan



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert MacGrogan" <rob...@ya...>
To: "Dan Bish" <db...@ge...>
Cc: "SourceJammer Users" <sou...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 12:36 PM
Subject: Re: SourceJammer - server/repository synchronization


> Hi, Dan.
>
> Why do you need to synchronize the code to multiple servers? Is this for 
> backup purposes?
> Regardless, I developed a little utility that can synchronize files from 
> one server to another.
> It's command line based and can easily be wrapped in a cron job. It uses 
> FTP and is "smart" enough
> to only send new files or files that have changed.
>
> It only synchronizes one way, however, and it does not track deleted 
> files.
>
> If you're interested, this project is called SyncJammer and you can get it 
> from
> http://syncjammer.sourceforge.net
>
> --Rob
>
>
>
> --- Dan Bish <db...@ge...> wrote:
>
>> I have several servers that I need to synchronize with the code on my 
>> repository server, in
>> various archives.  What I want to do is develop a web application, or a 
>> cron job, that will
>> allow whatever files have been changed to be pulled down and ftp'd to the 
>> appropriate server
>> without human intervention.
>>
>> I was thinking that using a command line to keep the files synchronized 
>> would work, but I can't
>> quite figure out how to get that implemented.  Another thought was to 
>> somehow modify the source
>> code to automatically FTP the modified files to the server that is 
>> associated with the archive.
>>
>> Has anyone done something like this, or could anyone give me some 
>> pointers on this?  I am new to
>> SourceJammer and would love to get some assistance.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --Dan
>
>
>
>
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