On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 08:34 -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > On 16 Oct 2007 at 12:59, Janco van der Merwe wrote: > > > OK I read the thread and it gave me basically what I thought I had to > > do but I'm not to keen putting the Restore Job in a RunAfterJob script > > I was hoping that there was an alternative way of doing this. The > > rsync might work but I'm not to sure how it'll work if an entire > > system is backed up and restored on another except if the hardware was > > the same. > > > > My whole idea is to try to introduce high availability so if one > > server goes down we can start the other, most probably a VM, and carry > > on as if nothing happened until we get the original server back up and > > running. I know that there are "Server Mirroring" Software out there > > but they cost a lot and in a company with a tight budget....well you > > know the rest. > > rsync? Between the two servers. But still use Bacula for backups. > rsync is not a backup. It is a copy. The rsync was only an idea, maybe an ambitious idea, but an idea never the less. I went on the Search for Open Source HA software and came across this: http://www.drbd.org/. Hopefully this will do the Job. Backups aren't my main concern because Bacula has that covered, what I was looking for was something that had HA capabilities and I hoped Bacula had something like that but have a look at the URL....quite interesting.
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