RE: How to mirror or Replicate a primary server's data toasecondarymachine

["Tobias Speckbacher" <TSpeckbacher quova com>]

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> [mailto:taroon-list-bounces redhat com]On Behalf Of Tobias Speckbacher
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 10:20 AM
> To: Gary Mansell ricardo com; Discussion of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
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> 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 redhat com on behalf of Gary Mansell 
> 	Sent: Thu 4/14/2005 9:13 AM 
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> 	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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