one could probably cobble something together with DRDB and ha-proxy I
imagine. There would still be some initial outlay for hardware, but it would
be commodity hardware as opposed to SAN or a NAS appliance.

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Andrew Hall
<[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi there.
>
> I wonder if I could get your opinions on the following as a cheap HA
> solution - as opposed to a shared disk and some form of networked file
> system:
>
> N.B. The terms "master" and "slave" are used with reference to HA.
>
> 1. The master rsyncs its /usr/local/nagios directory with the slave
> after every reload.
>
> 2. The slave runs as a MySQL replicating database.
>
> Simple, right ?
>
> This way both the filesystem and database stay in sync without having
> to share a disk.
>
> Problems I see:
>
> 1. Do the files under /usr/local/nagios only change during a reload of
> the master or do other processes - cron jobs perhaps - also affect
> these files ?
>
> If so then I guess we could just schedule an rsync of the directory
> every 5 mins between master and slave but this isn't ideal.
>
> Can anyone forsee other problems / solutions ?
>
> Thanks very much.
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