I have two servers sitting side by side, one intended to be a hot
standby to the other...
Does anyone have any ideas or experience regarding ways to keep the
backup in sync with the main?
The obvious first thought would be to rsync the main system filesystems
to the standby. The two systems should be *almost* identical, the obvious
exception being the IP address's and hostnames.
Duplicating the user directories is easy enough, but system files like
/etc/passwd should be kept in sync also, and and it would be nice if
things like package installations on the main were automatically
duplicated.
I am wondering if it is going to be best to duplicate the user filesystem
as specific files from the others, or duplicate everything with specific
directories or files excluded.
The obvious exclusions that spring to mind are
1. network config files
2. hostname
3. the .ssh files used to authenticate the rsync access
Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?
Regards,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.digbyt.com
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