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