Fail-over not mission critical

[Robert F. Kennedy]

Hello William and Scott,

Thanks for the tips, I am going to give rsync a try as soon as I hook up
a crossover cable. I just hope that I don't rsync in the wrong direction
:)

Best,
Robert

Robert F. Kennedy
Toronto

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Elcomb
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 4:09 PM
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Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Fail-over not mission critical


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.

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

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