From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 5 01:33:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61E6E16A4CE for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:33:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-46-91.eastlink.ca [24.222.46.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E967043D3F for ; Sun, 5 Sep 2004 01:33:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0244A345BC; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:33:18 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73CC34358 for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:33:18 -0300 (ADT) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2004 22:33:18 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040904222712.F812@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: File system replication between servers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 01:33:18 -0000 Does anyone know of any software that will run on FreeBSD that would allow you to keep two servers in sync? All writes to /dir1 on server1 would go to /dir1 on server2, and all writes to /dir2 on server2 would go to /dir2 on server1? I've thought about rsync, but am trying to get it as close to real time as I can, and on large file systems, rsync would just get too far behind, too quickly ... I've started to look at Coda6, but so far what I'm reading through the docs makes it sound like it may not be suitable ... What I'm looking for is a hot failover solution using FreeBSD ... if server1 goes down, server2 can start up and continue working ... when server1 comes back up again, changes to server2 could be re-sync'd back to server1, and server1 could once more resume its duties ... Thanks ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664