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[I, Brian]

Is it possible to have a website with dynamic content mirrored?

I'm thinking in terns of a forum - could you have the exact same forum accessible from two domains - and if one domain went down, the forum could still easily be used from the second domain?

Not quite sure about this...

[Eric Lim]

I am currently testing rsync, not sure how it works, but from the features page it should be what you're looking for.

http://rsync.samba.org/features.html

rsync will only upload files when the size has changed, you can cron it to run like once a few days. If it's only for one site, run it once a day should be fine. I don't know about database mirroring.

After all, I am very newbie to this mirror thing. Though I hope this helps.

[I, Brian]

Hm, not sure it is. Hasn't anyone ever tried to do this? I would have thought it essential planning for business sites. Or have I completely misunderstood what "mirroring" is?

I guess my query then is: can you run a single database from two different servers comprising of two different IPs?

Maybe not, I guess.

[inteltechs]

Originally posted by cyberservers
I am currently testing rsync, not sure how it works, but from the features page it should be what you're looking for.

http://rsync.samba.org/features.html

rsync will only upload files when the size has changed, you can cron it to run like once a few days. If it's only for one site, run it once a day should be fine. I don't know about database mirroring.

After all, I am very newbie to this mirror thing. Though I hope this helps.

http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Replication.html

http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/ta...u20000912.php3

[Knogle]

Well using rsync to mirror files should be pretty easy to do. But the tough part comes when you need to mirror the database (since this is a forum) - not impossible, but very hard. What i would do to save you all the trouble is dedicate one server just to MySQL, and another one to serve page requests.

[Pkspawn]

Originally posted by sanjiv
Well using rsync to mirror files should be pretty easy to do. But the tough part comes when you need to mirror the database (since this is a forum) - not impossible, but very hard. What i would do to save you all the trouble is dedicate one server just to MySQL, and another one to serve page requests.

Then what do you do when the Mysql server is offline.. now you have two domains without a working forum..

rsync is ok for one way mirroring. But they mentioned using either domain.. And i'm going to assume that these two or more domains will be located on their own server.

Either using mysql's replication or even playing around with unison and see if that would do what your looking for. Unison is for making two-way updates, but again you would have the problem with the database files, depending on what database system you use.

Just some ideas..

[ENSupport]

Brian if you mean to mirror everything off site you dont have shell login to or w/e just rip directly from WEBSITE then you cant :'o you can mirror graphics and html tho

[JP.]

Originally posted by ENSupport
Brian if you mean to mirror everything off site you dont have shell login to or w/e

That is not what he means