By GreyMan on

Hi,

I have a serious problem, here it goes.

We have a website running at drupal 6 and it's hosting at a web provider.
Then we have several touchscreens-pc with USB modem in different locations and they must display the webpage, but not by steaming it since it gives too great a dataflow(cost too much and runs too slowly).

The need is that the displays are updated 1-2 times.

My thought is to install a local server at each of the screens and that they run a copy of the page - but have no idea how to set it up so they are updated every 1-2 times per day

Are any of you who can give a good guess on how it should be set up

/Thomas

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GreyMan’s picture

GreyMan commented

The touchscreens are running at Ubuntu, so maybe I can run a cron script which update the database, but then I just have to find a way to copy files that have been changed or are new.

pbarnett’s picture

pbarnett commented

You'll probably want to use rsync to update the files...

damianrobinson’s picture

damianrobinson commented

Agree with pbarnet, I would suggest getting the 'master' to dump the DB & zip the filesystem, then push both onto the slave devices if security allows.

Perhaps look at using phing http://phing.info/trac/ to create a build file to do this at both master & slave end.

pbarnett’s picture

pbarnett commented

No, the whole point of using rsync is that it only updates files that have changed...

Molot’s picture

Molot commented

Consider master-slave db replication as well. That way, you'll only transmit the data that changed, not the whole dump.