[ale] ssh for automated management

[David Corbin]

On Friday 17 December 2004 17:00, Mike Murphy wrote:
> ah. I see. There are lots of good ways to do that, but the simplest is
> to use rsync instead. If you don't have need to execute commands,
> setting all the machines up to do an rsync pull at given intervals is
> the way to go.
>
> You can control machines getting what when with a config file they pull
> first. That's the way a bunch of stuff I've done has done it at least.
>
> If you are feeling really ambitious though, you could try using other
> tools, like something based on cfengine or apt/yum/some other package
> management tool too.
>
> Pushing the files you want to publish with ssh/scp is actually probably
> the least efficient way to do it of the ways discussed.
>


Well, execution is required.  Not only do we have to backup databases, but 
sometimes we have database schema changes, etc.  I'm sure we would use rsync 
instead of scp for any file transfers, but that's only half the equation.