syncing up 2 servers...just like that!

[rado]

> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:58:15 -0600, rado <rado at rivers-bend.com> wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > The big problem here is syncing the data. The master takes in the data.
> > > The data has to end up on the slave. almost like a RAID1 array on 2
> > > different systems but it can't be totally like that because of hardware
> > > issues.
> > > 
> > <snip>
> > >
> > > I can see rsync used in conjunction w/cfengine. cfengine has a daemon,
> > > cfd, will let you pull on demand. I dunno anything bout rsync of
> > > cfengine, this just caught my eye. I really would like some ideas if
> > > y'all would.
> > > 

> 
> There are a couple of ways to sync live over a network.  One is an nbd
> or enbd device used along with md software RAID, another is DRBD which
> does that and a little more.  This project puts the pieces together:
> http://www.linuxha.net/index.pl
> 
> -- 
>   Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
> 
> RAID???? hummmm gotta stay away from hardware specific tho....interesting!!!
saving this msg...dunno DRBD and wanna see what that's about as well
thx les!

John Rose


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