Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 10:59:27 +0100 From: "Gerard Meijer" <gmeijer@palmweb.nl> To: "Peter Risdon" <peter@circlesquared.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: live mirroring Message-ID: <041901c5127b$deb1d180$9600000a@guus> References: <03f501c51276$bf4f18c0$9600000a@guus> <1108374592.23699.200.camel@lorna.circlesquared.com>
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Peter, I don't really understand this approach. Where can I read more about nfs? Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Risdon" <peter@circlesquared.com> To: "Gerard Meijer" <gmeijer@palmweb.nl> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 10:49 AM Subject: Re: live mirroring > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 10:22 +0100, Gerard Meijer wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I have a question. I want to set-up a site on 3 identical FreeBSD >> servers, using Round Robin to distribute the load. >> >> The site will be running some .cgi and .php scripts and when those >> scripts make changes to the configuration files of the sites, they need >> to be spread automatically to the other two servers. Also when files are >> uploaded to one server, I need them to automatically upload to the other >> servers to. >> >> What is the best program to do this? Or am I looking at it the wrong way >> and should I do it different? > > Mirroring is one approach, but here's another: > > One of the servers holds the data and nfs exports it to the other two. > The webroot is on the mounted nfs filesystem. This also eliminates > potential data synchronisation problems if you have different > filesystems having overlapping/incompatible changes made to them. It > lets you invest in one really resilient storage system instead of three > possibly inferior ones. > > Peter. > >
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