howtoforge.com — This tutorial shows how you can mirror your web site from your main web server to a backup server that can take over if the main server fails. We use the tool rsync for this, and we make it run through a cron job that checks every x minutes if there is something to update on the mirror.
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ewithrowMay 22, 2006
Who needs a 3 page howto when you can just run something like:rsync -azPe ssh username@123.54.67.89:/home/username /path/to/local/drive
billimekMay 22, 2006
Must like this article talks about, I use rsync to ‘mirror’ my website (and databases) from my webhosting provider over to my local linux machine. It does some post-processing with sed to massage the data in the database dumps in order to translate the domain names from what my hosting provider uses to what my local machine uses.I have a pretty comprehensive write-up with examples on all of this if you want some supplemental info to go along with the article at: <a class="user" href="http://billimek.com/jeff/archives/2006/01/16/migration-to-site5/">http://billimek.com/jeff/archives/2006/01/16/migration-to-site5/</a>
nferrierMay 22, 2006
they would have to frag dns for that to be done.name service providers would be able to build such a service. But when network solutions tried to alter the way that nameservers respond to failures there was an outcry.
Closed AccountMay 22, 2006
I didn't see the part about "a backup server that can take over if the main server fails" WRT web service.I guess Ultramonkey would be the tool, and I can just look it up on howtoforge, but I figured while he was cutting and pasting URLS from last month, it would be easy to do one more.<a class="user" href="http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_loadbalanced_apache_cluster">http://www.howtoforge.com/high_availability_loadbalanced_apache_cluster</a>
pgouyMay 23, 2006
The linked mysql cluster article was really useful for me now! Thanks :)dugg!
bogthaMay 23, 2006
He is hitting enter. Digg has a bug where if you go back and edit a comment, it sometimes changes all newlines into 'n's. Fixing that by going through, deleting the 'n's and hitting enter doesn't work because you just end up with the 'n's again. I suspect it's stripslashes() being called at the wrong time and screwing up the 'n's before nl2br() can be called to convert them into <br>s.
blfflixMay 8, 2007
I just got my hands on Windows Server 2003 R2. I was pleased to learn that there was an official Microsoft version of Unix freely downloadable. I was not prepared for the 2 minute window so I will find the link and post it in a minute.
blfflixMay 8, 2007
This is the link to the Microsoft page about the Unix subsystem:<a class="user" href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/r2/unixinterop/default.mspx">http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/r2/unixinterop/default.mspx</a>I have installed it but only for the purposes of seeing that it seemed to work and to see if I could trick SBS to run it. There is a version from MS for XP as well.