Re: [Condor-users] adding another submit host

[Matthew Farrellee <matt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 03/21/2010 09:49 AM, Mag Gam wrote:
> I currently have only 1 submit host in my pool. I would like to add
> another one. Instead of using the High Availability daemon
> (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/manual/v7.2/3_1Introduction.html#9351)
> I would like to simply rsync the spool directory over. I will ofcourse
> run another collector on this second submit host and when the
> production negotiator is down I can manually start up the negotiator
> on this server. Would this work? Has anyone been doing this?

Never tried, but if you are doing manual fail-over I don't see why rsync wouldn't work. As long as your rsync is atomic for the entire SPOOL contents.

Best,


matt