Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 09:27:16 -0500 From: Tony Wells <tony@camel.kdsi.net> To: Rob Hulme <rob@robhulme.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server synch Message-ID: <3B3355C4.2E893BA8@camel.kdsi.net> References: <LPBBLIHFHEKDFLJEBFJGIEIODJAA.rob@robhulme.com>
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If you're just needing to mirror your data to the new server, you might want to give rsync a look. (It's available in ports.) You can mirror a running system, and you can use a variety of transport mechanisms to do the transfer. Depending on how much data you have, it might be prudent to try and get on the network the old servers on. Rob Hulme wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a colocated server at a nearby city, and recently I've decided to > upgrade it to a Dell PowerEdge server. > > The problem I have is that I have no backups of the server, and I need to > basically keep it running (I wouldn't want it to be down for more than an > hour or two). > > I basically need to create a mirror of the existing server onto the > poweredge that I have... Is there any easy way to do this? > > I only have a modem connection to the internet from home, but I could spend > an hour or so at the co location facility copying things across their > network if I needed to. > > What I'm looking for is someway to copy it so that the setup is identical on > the new server, so that it can be just plugged in its place. > > Originally I was going to install FreeBSD 4.3 (I've got 4.2 on the old > server) onto the PowerEdge, set the networking settings to be the same as > the old server, install Apache+PHP, MySQL, Majordomo, sshd, and mirror the > setup for BIND - doing all this manually, hopefully covering all the major > bases - then swapping the boxes over and from home updating anything that I > missed. > > Does anyone have any suggestions? > > Thankyou! > -Rob > > -------------------------------- > http://www.robhulme.com > http://www.christianunion.org.uk > > "Most people don't know Freud actually thought sexual impulses were all > about butt naked circus midgets." and "I feel ill, last time I party with > desperate trained monkeys" - quotes from my homepage > > "easy as 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841..." > > "A programmer is a device for turning coffee into code." -firefly > > "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero." --Anonymous > > "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on > ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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