[Vserver] Mirroring entire vserver hosts in general.

2007-02-28 Thread Chuck
I know absolutely nothing about mirroring systems with autostart etc. My initial thoughts were as follows: 1. provide accurate duplication of the entire primary machine to the secondary one which is running off a temporary ip address. 2. provide a 3rd monitoring server to keep an eye on both

Re: [Vserver] Couldn't download base-config

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Mann
On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:16:44PM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: - debian tends to break things, and then avoid to fix up the breakage for a long time (see kernel) just now it's special case, because of preparing next stable,

Re: [Vserver] Couldn't download base-config

2007-02-28 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:12:04PM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:16:44PM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: - debian tends to break things, and then avoid to fix up the breakage for a long time (see kernel)

Re: [Vserver] Re: keeping a mirror machine synched

2007-02-28 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:49:03AM +, Ticktac UK wrote: I used to run a HA NFS configuration using a dual mini-ITX system in 1U (with a Travla C147 case). The synch speed sucked howver, and the drives (300 GB Maxtors) ran too hot and died rather soon. (I RMAed them, but one RMAed one is

Re: [Vserver] Couldn't download base-config

2007-02-28 Thread Peter Mann
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:53:27PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:12:04PM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 05:16:44PM +0100, Peter Mann wrote: On Mon, Feb 05, 2007 at 06:11:04AM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: - debian tends to break things, and

Re: [Vserver] Re: keeping a mirror machine synched

2007-02-28 Thread Ticktac UK
In our mini-ITX's we started to use Seagates as the Maxtors were dropping down like flys. Although now I know they are one and the same, we still opt for Seagates. Although Maxtor always replaced them with no problems, its the hassle :) for harddisks, low temperature is the secret of long

Re: [Vserver] Re: keeping a mirror machine synched

2007-02-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:15:08PM +0100, Herbert Poetzl wrote: for harddisks, low temperature is the secret of long life (and stable env. conditions, of course) There's a reasonably interesting recent paper from Google labs which is making the rounds