On 22/01/2018 16:38, Paul Vixie wrote: > for live sync you'll have to run software inside the guest that knows > how to properly freeze state. for example if there's a live database of > any kind you'll want it to be in its quiet state before you sync from > it. in those situations, i do use rsync.
Yeah, thought it might be this. Sorry I wasn't more clear initially about the use case. Basically, the production server is in a datacentre and the reserve server is on a very fast vdsl service. The reason for the reserve server is, if the production server fails then I swap DNS to point at the reserved server and the guests on it without interruption of service. All guests are running databases (mysql) though they aren't especially busy. So I guess the best bet would be mysql replication for the databases and rsync for everything except mysql? thanks everyone who took the time to answer -- J. _______________________________________________ freebsd-virtualization@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-virtualization To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-virtualization-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
