Fail-over not mission critical

[Scott Elcomb]

On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 12:47, Robert F. Kennedy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am running a dns server, mail server, web server and Mailman on a
> computer at my home with Istop as my provider to provide these services
> for a non-profit. The load is very light and if things went down for a
> day or so it would not be the end of the world. However, I have a backup
> computer that I would like to set up to be a mirror of my main box so
> that should a crash occur I could just start up the second box. 
> 
> The main computer is running RedHat Linux 9 updated, the backup machine
> is 9 too but has not been updated and does not have Mailman installed. I
> am wondering what approach some of you would take to create a backup
> scenario for a situation like this. I have read about the rsync command
> and this sounds perfect but I'm not sure if I'd have to get the backup
> machine updated and installed with Mailman first or not. My preference
> would be to just keep it as simple as possible. You all helped me set up
> my dns service a few months back and everything has been working like a
> charm ever since.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Robert
> 
> Robert F. Kennedy
> Toronto
> Running services for www.shambhalatoronto.org
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Rsync can be a really handy utility, I used it to migrate about 1K users
to a new mail server a few months back and left me with a grand total
downtime of about 2 minutes.  :)

There are any number of tricks in O'Reilly's book "Linux Server Hacks,"
with one of the Rsync tricks available online here:
http://hacks.oreilly.com/pub/h/38

Hope it helps.

-- 
Scott Elcomb
http://psema4.gotdns.com
https://sourceforge.net/projects/avalonweb/

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