Warming the cache from an existing squid proxy instance

[Martin Boer]

Hi Jonathan,
What you could do is something like;


backend squid_1 {
     ...
}


backend backend_1 {
    ...
}


director prefer_squid random {
   .retries = 1;
   {
         .backend = squid_1
         .weight = 250;
   }
   {
         .backend = backend_1;
         .weight = 1;
    }
}

This will make sure varnish will retrieve data from the squids mostly 
and gives you the chance to do the migration in your own time.

Regards,
Martin

On 03/25/2011 11:55 AM, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> On 21 March 2011 15:08, Jonathan Matthews<contact at jpluscplusm.com>  wrote:
>> Hi all -
>>
>> I've got some long-running squid instances, mainly used for caching
>> medium-sized binaries, which I'd like to replace with some varnish
>> instances.  The binaries are quite heavy to regenerate on the distant
>> origin servers and there's a large number of them.  Hence, I'd like to
>> use the squid cache as a target to warm a (new, nearby) varnish
>> instance instead of just pointing the varnish instance at the remote
>> origin servers.
>>
>> The squid instances are running in proxy mode, and require (I
>> *believe*) an HTTP CONNECT.  I've looked around for people trying the
>> same thing, but haven't come across any success stories.  I'm
>> perfectly prepared to be told that I simply have to reconfigure the
>> squid instances in mixed proxy/origin-server mode, and that there's no
>> way around it, but I thought I'd ask the list for guidance first ...
>>
>> Any thoughts?
> Anyone? All opinions welcome ... :-)
>