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toasecondarymachine | RE: How to mirror or Replicate a primary server 's data
toasecondarymachine 2005-04-14 - By Kent Walker
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I concur with Tobias - use rsync. There's some examples of rsync over ssh at
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxsvrhack/chapter/
Synchronizing a running database is more complex. You can dump the
database, transfer the dump file via rsync, then rebuild the database on
the understudy server.
Kent
At 10:23 AM 4/14/2005, Tobias Speckbacher wrote:
> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: taroon-list-bounces@(protected)
> > [mailto:taroon-list-bounces@(protected)]On Behalf Of Tobias Speckbacher
> > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:20 AM
> > To: Gary.Mansell@(protected); Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
> > (Taroon); nahant-list@(protected); linux-lvm@(protected);
> > taroon-list@(protected); linux-poweredge@(protected)
> > Subject: RE: How to mirror or Replicate a primary server's data
> > toasecondarymachine
> >
> >
> >
> > To facilitate automatic failover you could take a look at
> > heartbeat which is part of the Linux-HA project
> > http://www.linux-ha.org/download/
>
>Err..., what i really wanted to say is to check out rsync to synchronize
>data across
>the 2 systems. you can run it over ssh,rsh,etc. or if you prefer you can
>nfs/smb/whatever mount it
>and synchronize as local filesystems.
>
>-Tobias
> >
> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: taroon-list-bounces@(protected) on behalf of Gary Mansell
> > Sent: Thu 4/14/2005 9:13 AM
> > To: nahant-list@(protected); linux-lvm@(protected);
> > taroon-list@(protected); linux-poweredge@(protected)
> > Cc:
> > Subject: How to mirror or Replicate a primary server's
> > data to asecondarymachine
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am considering whether to go down the path of a dual
> > server, manual
> > failover solution for one of my RHEL fileservers.
> >
> > I would have two identical servers in two different
> > machine rooms on our
> > site and if the main server failed then I would
> > manually reconfigure the
> > secondary server with the primary server's IP address
> > so that the client
> > machines can carry on working.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend to me what I need to do to mirror
> > the data across
> > the two servers so that updates to the primary server
> > are also made to
> > the secondary server
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Gary Mansell
> > --
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Kent Walker - Datatel Analyst
Information Technology - U.C. Hastings College of the Law
415-565-4635
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