From cab2621e297488bf2e43773628ac45ee295612a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://edheil.wordpress.com/" Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:30:24 +0000 Subject: Added a comment --- .../comment_7_950759930667588f21659cd6d7065fbb._comment | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/forum/Drop_with_assistant/comment_7_950759930667588f21659cd6d7065fbb._comment (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/forum/Drop_with_assistant/comment_7_950759930667588f21659cd6d7065fbb._comment b/doc/forum/Drop_with_assistant/comment_7_950759930667588f21659cd6d7065fbb._comment new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c4bd03a9c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/forum/Drop_with_assistant/comment_7_950759930667588f21659cd6d7065fbb._comment @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +[[!comment format=mdwn + username="http://edheil.wordpress.com/" + ip="173.162.44.162" + subject="comment 7" + date="2013-04-12T13:30:24Z" + content=""" +As I understand it, nothing will \"be the middleman\" in the sense of, if annex A has remotes B and C, grabbing content from B in order to give it to C without regards for whether or not A wants it. Annex A doesn't think in terms of moving content from one remote to another remote, only in terms of pulling and pushing to remotes individually. + +I get the \"move content from remote B to C\" effect by setting numcopies=2 and making both remotes \"backup.\" If content is only on remote B, it will migrate to A in order to fulfill numcopies. Then it will migrate to C because of C's preferred content settings. + +(Respecting minimum numcopies is higher priority than respecting preferred content settings, so even if A wouldn't normally \"want\" the content, it will receive it if it needs to in order to fulfill numcopies.) + +I've got A set to \"client\" so content in archive directories disappears once the content is on B and C (because numcopies is fulfilled, and so A's preferred content can take effect.) + +If you had A set to \"manual,\" then it wouldn't automatically drop content once it moved from B to A to C, though. Because it would only drop things manually. + +"""]] -- cgit v1.2.3