Hello
Does anyone know if and how it is possible to set up a redundant NFS server?
What I want to do is this, I have a primary NFS server that serves home directories
and data storage.
I also have a second system with a lot of disk-capacity, I could set it up as a
'mirror' using rsync.
Now,
Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know if and how it is possible to set up a redundant NFS server?
Somthing like that is expensive and mostly not needed. Rsync with a
hot standby system is ok. If the mainserver fail, go to the second
and reconfigure the ip interface.
Bis
Hi Matthias
Thank you for your answer.
I think I'll do it that way, I was wondering if it would have been possible, Solaris
supports giving multiple servers when mounting NFS shares, but I couldn't find
something similar on FreeBSD and Linux.
Kind regards
Guy
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:30,
Guy Van Sanden wrote:
[ ... ]
Does anyone know if and how it is possible to set up a redundant NFS server?
Yes, although true redundancy for NFS is available only for read-only shares.
From man mount_nfs under Solaris:
Replicated file systems and failover
resource can list
Guy Van Sanden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi Matthias
Moin,
Thank you for your answer. I think I'll do it that way, I was
wondering if it would have been possible, Solaris supports giving
There isnt any out-of-the-box solution for BSD. You can hack
arround the problem.
multiple servers
