Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-31 Thread Toby Bluhm
Mail Administrator wrote: Thnaks john, u gave me a grt idea .. the second one seems quite interestin but i do have to get additional HDD and mirror my existing server which has jus one disk This was my procedure to mirror an existing single IDE disk RH4 system. YMMV. No guarantees. Not

Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-30 Thread Mail Administrator
Thnaks john, u gave me a grt idea .. the second one seems quite interestin but i do have to get additional HDD and mirror my existing server which has jus one disk thnks and regards simon > John R Pierce wrote: >> Johnny Hughes wrote: >>> The easiest way to make that happen is to use a produ

Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-29 Thread Les Mikesell
John R Pierce wrote: Johnny Hughes wrote: The easiest way to make that happen is to use a product called DRBD do be aware, drbd replicas are not 'safe' for things like transactional databases, unless they are configured to be synchronous (such that a fsync doesn't return until its written on

Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-29 Thread John R Pierce
Johnny Hughes wrote: The easiest way to make that happen is to use a product called DRBD do be aware, drbd replicas are not 'safe' for things like transactional databases, unless they are configured to be synchronous (such that a fsync doesn't return until its written on both the local disk A

Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-29 Thread Johnny Hughes
Mail Administrator wrote: Dear All, I do have a centos 5 srver running the following. the server is a dell pc with standard config 1 gb ram 120 gb ide hdd 3.2 ghz cpu NIC Mail server Dns Server webmail Mailscanner now i would like to have another server like mirroring this server .. so incas

Re: [CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-28 Thread Jeff Larsen
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:22 AM, Mail Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > now i would like to have another server like mirroring this server .. > so incase there is any problem with this server the other server is always > online and the problem server could be fixed without our users ge

[CentOS] how do i have a clone centos server

2008-03-28 Thread Mail Administrator
Dear All, I do have a centos 5 srver running the following. the server is a dell pc with standard config 1 gb ram 120 gb ide hdd 3.2 ghz cpu NIC Mail server Dns Server webmail Mailscanner now i would like to have another server like mirroring this server .. so incase there is any problem with