The next time you report something to this list, please _don't_ reply to a random post but create a new e-mail. This way you'll not break all thread aware e-mail clients out there (and as such more people might actually notice your post). /Peter On Wednesday 08 March 2006 10:15, Nick wrote: > I'm trying to mirror a live server onto a slave server of identical > hardware. Theory being that when the master server blows up I can change > the IP of the slave, restore the db's, restart a few processes and make > everyone happy again. > > What is the best way of doing this? Can you literally rsync / (with the > exception of perhaps /proc and /tmp) and create an identical copy of the > master? Is there a better way to achieve this? > > I've looked at using cluster suite but I don't think the instant(ish) and > automatic failover justifies the cost of the shared storage. > > TIA, > > -- > Nick B -- ------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Kjellstr?m | National Supercomputer Centre | Sweden | http://www.nsc.liu.se -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 191 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060308/c56f2746/attachment.bin