Re: [CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-06-02 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:40 AM, sbeam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an existing in-production LAMP server running Centos 5.1... > > We have a near-identical system I am thinking of bringing in as a > DRBD/Heartbeat companion... Why don't you consider using MySQL master-slave replication? It

Re: [CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-06-02 Thread Johnny Hughes
sbeam wrote: Thanks guys for the info. I understand that the secondary machine needs a /var too while in standby, and since it can't also mount it as part of the DRBD array, then it has to be a vanilla partition on both machines. Thanks for clearing that up. On Saturday 31 May 2008 09:28, Fil

Re: [CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-06-01 Thread sbeam
Thanks guys for the info. I understand that the secondary machine needs a /var too while in standby, and since it can't also mount it as part of the DRBD array, then it has to be a vanilla partition on both machines. Thanks for clearing that up. On Saturday 31 May 2008 09:28, Filipe Brandenburg

Re: [CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-05-31 Thread Filipe Brandenburger
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 7:40 AM, sbeam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a near-identical system I am thinking of bringing in as a > DRBD/Heartbeat companion. One solution may be to use csync2 > [http://oss.linbit.com/csync2/] on /etc and /usr/local (the only areas that > will differ from the st

Re: [CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-05-31 Thread Johnny Hughes
sbeam wrote: I have an existing in-production LAMP server running Centos 5.1. It uses physical partitions on top of hardware RAID1, having / /home /var and /boot on separate partitions. We have a near-identical system I am thinking of bringing in as a DRBD/Heartbeat companion. One solution ma

Re: [CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-05-31 Thread Fabian Arrotin - relay.skynet.be
sbeam wrote: I have an existing in-production LAMP server running Centos 5.1. It uses physical partitions on top of hardware RAID1, having / /home /var and /boot on separate partitions. We have a near-identical system I am thinking of bringing in as a DRBD/Heartbeat companion. One solution ma

[CentOS] drbd strategy

2008-05-31 Thread sbeam
I have an existing in-production LAMP server running Centos 5.1. It uses physical partitions on top of hardware RAID1, having / /home /var and /boot on separate partitions. We have a near-identical system I am thinking of bringing in as a DRBD/Heartbeat companion. One solution may be to use csy