Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-23 Thread Ashok Kumar
Hi Ahmed, It very simple for it, we can use sync function for this issue and you can use cron function for cluster. Ashok Kumar On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Ahmed Kamal ahmed.ka...@canonical.comwrote: On 01/20/2011 02:02 PM, Jesus arteche wrote: Hey guys, I have two servers...and I

Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Jesus arteche
Hey guys, I have two servers...and I need that a folder in one of the servers will be updated every time to another server, in case the first server go down...the second will be able to replace it. anyone has any idea? thanks -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Clapham
One possibility, depending on your environment could be... http://www.drbd.org/ with heartbeat... Pete Hey guys, I have two servers...and I need that a folder in one of the servers will be updated every time to another server, in case the first server go down...the second will be able to

Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Ahmed Kamal
On 01/20/2011 02:02 PM, Jesus arteche wrote: Hey guys, I have two servers...and I need that a folder in one of the servers will be updated every time to another server, in case the first server go down...the second will be able to replace it. anyone has any idea? thanks drbd is the

Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Nafallo Bjälevik
Hi, On 20/01/11 12:02, Jesus arteche wrote: Hey guys, I have two servers...and I need that a folder in one of the servers will be updated every time to another server, in case the first server go down...the second will be able to replace it. anyone has any idea? Looks like gsync could

Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Clapham
Looks like gsync could do this. http://open.gandi.net/ Cheers, /N The issue with various syncs are that you need to be there to both perform the switch over following a failure and you also need to manually take care that split brain is avoided. This is less of an issue with a hard

Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Dan Sheffner
I have used rsync with cron. Since you can copy only the data that has changed you can run this often. I have mine set as */5 * * * * On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Peter Clapham p...@sanger.ac.uk wrote: Looks like gsync could do this. http://open.gandi.net/ Cheers, /N The issue

Re: Hard disk high avalibity

2011-01-20 Thread Clint Byrum
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 10:27 -0600, Dan Sheffner wrote: I have used rsync with cron. Since you can copy only the data that has changed you can run this often. I have mine set as */5 * * * * Any syncing that does not set the filesystem readonly while it runs, or use a snapshotting technology