On Mon, May 16, 2005 3:53 pm, Devraj Mukherjee said: > I am in a situation where I am managing two Gentoo servers one of which > is the mirror of the other. I wish to mirror the two servers such that > one can be used as a replacement almost instantly if the other fails. > These servers are NOT available parallelly, its one or the other.
I have two systems that I use rsync to syncronize once per day. I broke it down by root directories, just to make restart easier in case an rsync stalls and times out (e.g. /usr, /home, /etc, etc. are each rsynced one after the other). It usually only takes about 15-20 minutes total, a little more if a lot of changes occurred that day. The two systems are over the Internet, which is why I don't do it closer to real time. If they were on a LAN I might even do it hourly. rsync is very efficient at finding and updating only what has changed. -Eric -- arctic bears - email and dns services http://www.arcticbears.com -- [email protected] mailing list
