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  1. #1
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    Question rsync vs staqware for mirroring

    I am looking into mirroring several raqs (3/4, all with 4 software). I do not know if I should use rsync or staqware. What I am looking to do, is if a "primary" site goes down or does not respond, I want the request to switch to a different server, with the same site.

    This brings up a list of questions:
    1. Sync'ing the sites - how
    2. Search Engines - how does this affect the search engine indexes?
    3. How does this affect database calls?
    4. How does this affect email?
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  2. #2
    Good questions.
    I want to know the same things.

  3. #3
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    Shouldn't this be in the RaQ forum?

    StaqWare is severely out of date and can't be updated. It would leave your server vulnerable to remote exploits, and shouldn't be considered a viable option.

    Brandon

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    Re: rsync vs staqware for mirroring

    Originally posted by BooBoo
    This brings up a list of questions:
    1. Sync'ing the sites - how
    2. Search Engines - how does this affect the search engine indexes?
    3. How does this affect database calls?
    4. How does this affect email?
    1. Probably a cron job. If the dataset is pretty small, that won't take more than a couple minutes. You can have rsync send using an ssh tunnel for better security.

    2. No effect. Search engines are hostname-based.

    3. If it's an outside database server, this will be fine. You could set up a replication ring within the group, but beware that the data will not be perfectly in sync, especially if the current master crashes out.

    4. Have one box be the mail server. Set the others to relay mail (they're set to receive mail for your domain, but it's not considered local). Then at least incoming mail will be queued when problems occur.
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    How do you expect to route traffic to another server if the primary one goes down?

    A common way to approach this problem is to get a linux box (real low spec 1U will work) and run LVS on it. www.linuxvirtualserver.org
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