On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 16:08 +0200, Radek Hladik wrote: > I have one old RH9 box which functions as a backup server. I'm > periodically backing up DB from primary FDS to it but it would be also > nice to have read-only replica for failover there. But I was not able to > compile FDS on it as there were some very strange compile errors when > compiling libraries for it. I have some ideas how to get it working and > I would like to ask for your opinion: > 1) Run complete FDS+FC5 in vmware, but I think running extra kernel and > daemons will result in unnecessary overhead. On the other hand this > should work and as replication can happen only few times per day there > should be no big overhead till failover situation. > 2) Run FDS binary for FC5/FC4 and copy all required libraries from FC5/4 > and force FDS binary to use them. Or I can copy complete installed > FC5+FDS somewhere and chroot into it. This should eliminate overhead in > option 1 but the 2.4 kernel could be too old for FC5/4 libraries. I can > use some RHEL3 binaries and centos installation but I'm afraid of > compatibility of next FDS releases with those old OSes. > > Do you have any other ideas or is someone running FS on RH9? > > Radek > > > P.S. I'm stuck with RH9 as there is more important service running on > this box which requires RH9. I'm running several small jobs on vmware guests and as long as the host has sufficient RAM to avoid swapping the overhead doesn't seem bad - and you can easily move it to any host machine that happens to have sufficient capacity just by copying the files over. There is a pre-built FDS appliance for vmware at http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/. Is anyone using it in production or for a backup? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
