On Mon, Apr 8, 2024 at 10:23 AM Jon Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote:
> This seems like a lot of work to create an rsync alternative. I can't > really say I see the point. I noticed your "rejected alternatives" > mentions it with this note: > I want to point out a few things before dismissing it as an 'rsync alternative' - 1. rsync is dangerous for many reasons. Top reason is security. rsync executed over ssh offers a much broader access than is necessary for this use-case. Operators also have to maintain multiple sets of credentials for AuthN/AuthZ - ssh being just one of them. Finally, ssh isn't simply allowed in some environments. 2. rsync is an incomplete solution. You still need to wrap rsync in a script that will ensure that it does the right thing for each version of Cassandra, accounts for failures, retries, etc. The way I see it is if this solves a problem and adds value for even a subset of our users it would be valuable to accept it. Dinesh
