* Message by -Matt McCutchen- from Wed 2008-04-02:
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 20:55 +0200, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> > * Message by -Joao Miguel Ferreira- from Sun 2008-03-30:
> > > We would really like to leave all those important services up but we are
> > > really affraid of producing a corrupted rep
On Wed, 2008-04-02 19:20:09 -0400, Matt McCutchen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 19:15 -0400, Clark wrote:
> > Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > > It's not clear to me how a filesystem snapshot would solve the problem.
> > > It guarantees that rsync sees an instantaneous state of the fi
On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 19:15 -0400, Clark wrote:
> Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > It's not clear to me how a filesystem snapshot would solve the problem.
> > It guarantees that rsync sees an instantaneous state of the filesystem,
> > but that state could still include files that are half-modified by othe
Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 20:55 +0200, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
>> * Message by -Joao Miguel Ferreira- from Sun 2008-03-30:
>>> We would really like to leave all those important services up but we are
>>> really affraid of producing a corrupted replica...
>> Use filesystem snapshot
On Wed 02 Apr 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 20:55 +0200, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> > * Message by -Joao Miguel Ferreira- from Sun 2008-03-30:
> > > We would really like to leave all those important services up but we are
> > > really affraid of producing a corrupted replica...
>
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 20:55 +0200, Lasse Kliemann wrote:
> * Message by -Joao Miguel Ferreira- from Sun 2008-03-30:
> > We would really like to leave all those important services up but we are
> > really affraid of producing a corrupted replica...
>
> Use filesystem snapshots.
>
> Linux supports
On Sun 30 Mar 2008, Joao Miguel Ferreira wrote:
>
> An example: if we do not stop sendmail were rsync'ing can we be sure that
> the queues on the replica machine are in a consisten state ?
I don't know how sendmail organizes things, but at least with exim there
aren't any extra indexes or such th
On Sun, 2008-03-30 19:39:12 +0100, Joao Miguel Ferreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> right now we use a 'greedy approach'... we stop all important services
> (dhcpd, squid, sendmail, etc) just to minimize the possibility of copying to
> the backup a file that was being written.
>
> Could we be ov
* Message by -Joao Miguel Ferreira- from Sun 2008-03-30:
> we are using rsync to produce a replica of our filesystem.
>
> it's very important for us to be sure that the files replicated on the
> remote backup host are left in a consistent state as we may need to boot
> services from those files
