From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 6 8:32:49 2003 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 B2F7A37B405 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:32:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from expresso.netweaver.net (expresso.netweaver.net [217.151.99.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0130543FA3 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 08:32:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@chrishowells.co.uk) Received: (qmail 22514 invoked from network); 6 Feb 2003 16:27:02 -0000 Received: from userfm05.uk.uudial.com (chris@chrishowells.co.uk@62.188.24.93) by 0 with SMTP; 6 Feb 2003 16:27:02 -0000 From: Chris Howells Organization: @ $HOME To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Creating a Mirror of my own site Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:32:40 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.9 References: In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5863 DF82 C34D 7291 CC63 CA1B 17C2 2ED7 3379 5A2C MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: clearsigned data Message-Id: <200302061632.40041.chris@chrishowells.co.uk> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, On Thursday 06 February 2003 04:34, Matt Winslow wrote: > I'm trying to run dual servers (for redundancy...and just to learn), and > need help on easy ways to maintain a second server, that will perfectly > mirror the data on the first. Is using rsync running every minute a good rsync isn't a bad choice, you could possibly CVS, though CVS isn't great wi= th=20 binary files. Though presumably if you're mainly mirroring config files tha= t=20 won't be a problem. Why every minute though? Every hour sounds better, with the possibility of = you=20 manually updating if needed. > option? Are there better ones? Also, how do I set the second server to > use the passwords/permissons from the main server. NIS is the usual way to share accounts of UNIX systems. =2D --=20 Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org Web: http://chrishowells.co.uk, PGP key: http://chrishowells.co.uk/pgp.txt KDE: http://www.koffice.org, http://printing.kde.org, http://usability.kde.= org =2D----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Qo4oF8Iu1zN5WiwRAkhmAJwIuvHcJKdvIgH5nf6cCtzygpnyKQCfbiqD UaB7YU2APhWTJah2lZewPEA=3D =3D2R34 =2D----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message