Moving Caching Service to another Mac?

DanJ_LRSFC
Contributor III

We installed Server.app and configured and enabled the Caching Service on a random spare Mac to trial it to see if it would have a positive impact on our bandwidth usage. Now that we want to do it "for real" is there a way for us to move the already-cached data to another Mac?

Thanks,
Dan Jackson (Lead ITServices Technician)
Long Road Sixth Form College
Cambridge, UK.

2 REPLIES 2

al_platt
Contributor II

Never tried it but I suppose you could always try copying the /Library/Server/Caching folder over from one to another...

rquigley
Contributor

I was made aware by a JAMF Instructor that if two Caching servers are on the same network, they will see each other and share each others library of cached updates so that they are both up to speed.

I can only assume that it will happen for your devices.