Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 12:40:21 +0100 (CET)
From: Lenz Grimmer
I'm running SuSe 6.4 on two web servers which are about to be load balanced. I wondered if anyone knew of a tool that would detect any file changes in my htdocs directory on one server, then replicate the changes on the other server. The current machines use Windows NT and Site Server for this process, but is there anything similar on Linux?
rsync has been mentioned before, even though this is a clumsy solution. Have a look at DRB, this should be exactly, what you are looking for: http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/ "Drbd is a block device which is designed to build high availability clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid 1" A great resource for question about High Availibility (HA) is Alan Robertson's Linux-HA page: http://linux-ha.org/ BTW: Alan is a member of the SuSE Labs, working on HA stuff like heartbeat and SGI's FailSafe. LenZ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Lenz Grimmer SuSE GmbH mailto:grimmer@suse.de Schanzaeckerstr. 10 http://www.suse.de/~grimmer/ 90443 Nuernberg, Germany Truncated: What happened to the peanut at the zoo