Re: [PATCH] Ensure that rsync backups are only running one at a time

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On Wednesday 24 March 2010 12:08:00 pm Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:54:07AM -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> > ---
> > 
> >  configs/db/backup-dbs |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/configs/db/backup-dbs b/configs/db/backup-dbs
> > index 83ed6c8..7af66fb 100755
> > --- a/configs/db/backup-dbs
> > +++ b/configs/db/backup-dbs
> > @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ mv $DEST/$HOSTNAME.new $DEST/$HOSTNAME
> > 
> >  # Sync out
> >  for host in db01 db02 db03; do
> > 
> > +    # Sleep if any other rsyncs are already
> > +    while ssh $host "pgrep rsync" | grep -q [0-9]; do sleep 10; done
> > 
> >      if [ "$host" != $HOSTNAME ]; then
> >      
> >          su - dbbackup -c "ssh $host mkdir -p $DEST/$HOSTNAME"
> >          su - dbbackup -c "rsync -azr --bwlimit=5000 -e ssh
> >          $DEST/$HOSTNAME/* $host:$DEST/$HOSTNAME/"
> 
> So this means that among the three db hosts, db01, db02, and db03 we'll
> have at most one rsync running at any one time.  That's going to increase
> the time to sync some more.
> 
> I think that this code wonn't quite function properly when more than one
> backup-dbs script runs on a box at a time... what gets transferred to the
> remote host will be a mixture of what was in $DEST/$HOSTNAME when the rsync
> starts and what's in there when the rsync ends.. We would get errors if
> filenames were removed (ie: a database is removed while the rsync is still
> procesing).  Do to copying the directory prior to rsyncing, I don't think
> we'll get corruption of the actual dump files -- we'll just get dump files
> from two separate runs intermingled on the host being backed up to.
> 
> It doesn't look like the scripts are currently stacking on a single host.
> They run at every six hours on db01 and db02 (every 12 hours on db03).
> 
> So the risk of problems at this time doesn't seem too bad.
> 
> +1
> 
> -Toshio
+1 here

Dennis

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