I have Globus toolkit 4.0.4 installed. Is RLS/DRS not packaged with 4.0.4?
What do I have to install/configure to get RLS working?

Also, the documentation in globus.org on RLS/DRS is not extensive. Can you
point me to some document or tutorial where I can understand more about RLS?

~Baas

On 14/01/2008, Charles Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Storing it in a database is a fine idea.  You could also use the
> Replica Location Service for this task, I think.  RLS make a map
> between logical names (like "Files to be backed up on date nn/nn")
> and physical file names (like "host1:/path/to/file" and "host2:/path/
> to/other/file") that you can query and create with commandline tools.
>
>
> Charles
>
> On Jan 14, 2008, at 10:45 AM, Baas Saab wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to implement a storage service. This requires me to
> > store an index of the names of files that have been backed up,
> > client hostname and the time when it was backed up. During  a
> > recovery, I want to find out from my index as to where the backed
> > up data resides and fetch it from there.
> >
> > How can I maintain an index of the files backed up along with the
> > client name and date/time? Should I just create  a database and
> > dump these values so that the or is there a better way to do it
> > with Globus toolkit? (I want this index of files to reside on
> > secondary storage. ).
> >
> > Regards,
> > Baas
>
>

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