Re: Backup mirror machine

2005-05-06 Thread Bill Moseley
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:40:31AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > But that system turns out to be harder to keep in sync. > > nope ... actually trivial [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ trivial -bash: trivial: command not found I must not have it installed. You didn't provide a pointer to trivial and i

Re: Backup mirror machine

2005-05-06 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 5 May 2005, Bill Moseley wrote: > > one script ... change-me-from-slave-to-master.sh and symlinked to "N" > > But that system turns out to be harder to keep in sync. nope ... actually trivial > No, I'm not asking that. I was thinking I could use lilo to boot a > different configur

Re: Backup mirror machine

2005-05-05 Thread Bill Moseley
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:30:46PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > one script ... change-me-from-slave-to-master.sh and symlinked to "N" But that system turns out to be harder to keep in sync. > > What I'd like to do, I think, is have a system that ran as a separate > > machine, but I could reboot an

Re: Backup mirror machine

2005-05-05 Thread Alvin Oga
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 maste

Backup mirror machine

2005-05-05 Thread Bill Moseley
I'm looking for a few suggestions on making a mirror machine: I had a video card fail on a machine yesterday. (I had a spare available.) The machine runs mail, web, webmail, imap, DNS, and ntp. Mostly a low traffic machine. I rsync backups to another machine (actually more than one) but I rea