[Beowulf] Automatically replication of directories among nodes

[Oxedions]

Dear @john,

I was thinking exactly the same!
If anyone has feedback on replacing DRBD or shared storage arrays with
Syncthing for HA, I would also be very interested :-)

Best regards
Ox

Le ven. 27 nov. 2020 à 09:04, John Hearns <hearnsj at gmail.com> a écrit :

> James, that is cool!
> A though I have had - for HA setups DRBD can be used for the shared files
> which the nodes need to keep updated.
> Has anyone tried Syncthing for this purpose?
> I suppose there is only one way to find out!
>
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2020 at 01:06, James Braid <jamesb at loreland.org> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020, 09:28 Lux, Jim (US 7140) via Beowulf, <
>> beowulf at beowulf.org> wrote:
>>
>>> What I have is 3 rPi computers, A,B, and C, and what I’d like to do is
>>> keep the desktop and some data directories on all of them synchronized.  So
>>> if on node A, I add something to A:~/Desktop, it (in short order) winds up
>>> in the ~/Desktop directory on the other 2 machines.
>>>
>>
>> Syncthing works great for these kinds of applications:
>> https://syncthing.net/
>>
>> Install on all 3 nodes, add a shared directory on all 3 and it will keep
>> everything synced. Lightweight single binary written in go and runs on
>> almost every platform.
>>
>> I've replaced a number of messy rsync setups with syncthing and it also
>> enables some more complex and interesting topologies (for example I have an
>> offline host with limited resources pushing data to a nearby host with
>> internet connectivity and from there to multiple other hosts).
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
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