Re: Backup mirror machine
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Bill Moseley wrote:
> What I currently have is one machine that is basically a mirror of
> another, but has different public and internal IPs. So to replace the
> main machine I'd have to go through the various configs and change IPs
> (and change bind from a slave to a master). Actually, it's currently
> a matter of changing a few symlinks, but still it's not a very good
> system.
one script ... change-me-from-slave-to-master.sh and symlinked to "N"
> What I'd like to do, I think, is have a system that ran as a separate
> machine, but I could reboot and at the LILO prompt select another
> configuration that makes it boot with the other machines IPs and
> config settings.
i assume the "other machines ip" is after the slave has been changed
into master
you cannot tell lilo to boot a remote machine
you can tell pxe boot to boot off the other remote nfs-server machine
and this machine does not have any disks
> Perhaps mounting different /etc, /var, and /home. (and
> what else?) assuming I have the same package set and versions.
each machine should have its own copy of mirrored data
of what ever you need ...
- try it and see ... is your only real answer ..
- nobody else knows where you put all your data and how
your system is installed
> Those /etc, /var, /home, etc. could be rsync backups based on this
> procedure:
and your more import conf files is in /etc and cannot be live on the
2nd mirror system since its ip# and names are different
- you'd need to tell rsync to skip all these different files
from being rsync
> http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
>
> Any Suggestions?
gazillion ways to do it
c ya
alvin
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