Questions tagged [mirroring]
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How to build a high availability Postfix system?
I'm needing to set up a remote mirror for a postfix server (where the content of both mail servers should be the same at any time).
The idea is that if the main server comes down at some point the ...
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mirrored filesystem across a few servers
I'm looking for a solution to mirror or replicate one directory (or one filesystem) across a few Linux servers. Ideal solution would be one, which permits all servers read-write access. I also want it ...
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What is a practical way to mirror an Amazon S3 bucket?
I want to mirror my Amazon S3 buckets. I want to do this because 1) I don't want all my data only existing with one provider; and 2) in case of software error or security breach I want to have the ...
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Do disks in Raid-1 function outside of the raid?
Raid-1 is mirroring two disks (if I haven't messed up completely here :p). Does that mean that I could take one disk out and put it into another machine and it would work like a normal disk? Or does ...
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LVM mirroring VS RAID1
Having learned a bit about LVM mirroring, I thought about replacing the current RAID-1 scheme I'm using to gain some flexibility.
Problem is that according to what I found on the Internet, LVM is:
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What's the difference between "mirror" and "raid1" in LVM?
On the lvconvert(8) man page it says:
--type SegmentType
Used to convert a logical volume to another segment type or to
explicitly state the desired RAID1 segment type ("mirror" ...
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Can RHEL6 servers be "copied"?
My company needs to setup a development server and we already have 2 production RHEL 6 servers working under a L4 switch.
One of the solutions to setup the dev server was to simple copy all files ...
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Can wget convert links within a local html document?
I know that wget can fetch a remote page and its dependencies and rewrite the html so that image src attributes reference the newly downloaded images.
I am trying to convert local html files that ...
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Configure Juniper M320 as Ethernet/STM transparent converter
There is Juniper M320. We need to move ALL the traffic from one port to another. Everything that comes to one port goes to another and vice versa. No snooping or any other processing is required. One ...
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convert 1x2TB HDD with LVM into 2x2TB HDD with RAID1+LVM or with LVM mirroring?
I have Ubuntu server with 1x2TB HDD and 1x128GB SSD (unused). There are 2 partitions: /boot, and a physical volume for LVM, which has 1 group and 5 logical volumes: /, /var/log, /home, /srv, /tmp.
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How to implement partial mirroring in nginx?
I want to test an early new version of a server, and to do so I want to mirror part of the real requests that come to the production server on my testing server.
The mirror module allows me do to ...
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Looking for a small, portable, port-mirroring ethernet switch
I recently had a mac go haywire, taking half a minute or more to get www.google.com loaded. Getting its owner to give up the machine for repair was like pulling teeth - they were insisting that it ...
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High Availability NFS Server (Heartbeat/DRBD) long hang on clients when takeover occurs
We have a High Availability NFS environment using DRBD, heartbeat and nfs exposed to clients (Simular to the following https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HighlyAvailableNFS ). This seems to be a ...
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Geographical DB synchronus mirroring
An architect in our company has designed a solution based on 64 bit SQL2005 Standard edition synchronous mirroring between a physical (4 quad core, 32GB RAM) server and a virtual DR server (4 virtual ...
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Sync/mirror directory with Rackspace Cloud files bucket
What tool can I use to synchronize the content of a local directory with that of a Rackspace Cloud Files bucket?
I need a rsync-like application to do a mirror, not a backup application. What I want ...
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Any disadvantages of using built-in software-RAID-1 on a Windows Server?
I have had some problems using hardware-RAID on a server. Now I'm planning to use the Windows Server built-in software-RAID-1 instead. The server will only be used for Business Administrations, so I ...
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lftp, setting for ignoring time-stamp?
I am using lftp for mirroring the files on a server to a PC.
The problem for me is that as I put a batch of files on the PC that are exactly the same as the ones on the server, the mirroring starts of ...
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Selective mirroring over FTP
I need to keep my web page synchronized with a local directory.
A very effective tool is lftp, which I use with the script:
#!/bin/bash
HOST='ftp.remote.it'
USER='username'
PASS='password'...
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Statically mirroring a heavy trafficked site, CloudFlare as DNS
I run a fairly heavy trafficked website and due to some unfortunate incidents the machines that are in my cloud at Linode went down. And I have only a single Load Balancer machine exposed to the ...
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include/exclude files for "scp -r"
Supposed local folder as below:
/test/subfolder
/test/subfolder/file1.txt
/test/subfolder/page1.htm
/test/subfolder/page2.htm
/test/.hiddenfolder
/test/./hidenfolder/file2
How to exclude ....
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Oracle real time database mirroring
Does Oracle have any built-in features to support a master-slave mirroring mechanism ?
I am looking to mirror/replicate the production server on to a read-only database. The read-only database would ...
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Mirroring harddisk with compressed files with Robocopy
I tried to mirroring an existing disks on a new disks with less space. It is very important that the file structure, attributes and ACL's are exact as on the source disk.
For this I tried robocopy....
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How do I mirror a MySQL database?
I'm running two load balanced servers for one website, and I'd like the databases to be synchronized. Queries may be run on either of the two servers because they are both production sites, so the ...
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Build mirroring on top of SQL2008R2 SQL cluster
On our SharePoint 2010 farm, we are using SQL 2008 R2. Currently, a SQL cluster (with 2 SQL server sitting at same data center) is built to provide auto-failover. However, it has no DR ability.
We ...
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Redundancy level on a per file basis with BTRFS?
I would like to have one storage pool with multiple disks.
Raid5 for metadata of course. But for user-data I would like to set the level of redundancy on a per file or per subvolume level.
Can BTRFS ...
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Clone/Mirror Live Linux (Debian) Server
I've probably read every serverfault article on this matter, but none seems to answer my specific question or they seem like dated methods.
I have a live running debian (Lenny) system on Dell ...
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SQL mirroring or log-shipping - which has the least impact on a replicated database?
We're planning a server which is a clustered SQL2005 Enterprise 64bit with a database of which a subset of tables are replicated one way via transactional replication to single subscriber located at ...
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Error when add mirror in disk management window server 2012
I have a problem when add mirror in disk management window server 2012
The problem is:
The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console
view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by ...
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Mirror/Cache Websites on a Mobile Server
I have been asked to determine the feasibility of mirroring or caching websites on a mobile server on a train. Unfortunately, this has been dropped on me at the last minute and I have to come up with ...
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How to handle one-way synchronization of two Oracle databases with no network connection?
Here's the situation:
I have two Oracle 10g databases (with the same tables, etc.) that cannot be connected by network. At some regular intervals (say, once a day) I need to be able to update the ...
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Server 2012 (R2) - mirroring the boot drive... what is the state?
I struggle to find modern documentation here.
So far we have been booting our servers from the main RAID controllers. Worked nice, but not we get the first of a new generation that hs in the back 2 ...
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iptables + TEE doesn't work correctly
On my server, I want to duplicate all the traffic to an other host. I use iptables with TEE module:
iptables -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i eth0 -j TEE --gateway IP_SERVER2
I check the rule: iptables -...
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SQL 2008 Mirroring, how to failover from the mirror database?
I have configured a database mirroring setup in SQL 2008 using the High-safety, Synchronous mode, without automatic failover. I don't have a Witness instance.
Regarding high availability, I ...
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Copy/Mirror traffic to WAN interfaces without "iptables tee" support
I want to copy every outgoing packet to others WAN interfaces but my iptables (v1.2.7) has not TEE target support. I wonder if there is another way (maybe using iproute2 or ebtables) to copy every ...
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How good is Server 2008's built-in Mirroring Solution?
I am using Server 2008 R2 on a Dell Poweredge T110 for a non-critical media server for a school. Since the PE does not have any kind of RAID capability, I am considering using Windows built in ...
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Hot swapping under RAID 1
I have a server that supports hot swapping (such as HP ProLiant DL160 G6 with hot swap) (spec) and I configure it for RAID 1 mirroring across 2 disks.
Say one of the raid'ed disks then fails. Can I ...
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can I replicate systems using a RAID1 array?
I have four DL380-G5 servers.
one is currently running RH5.2 using a RAID1 drive set.
I want to replicate the first server to the other three.
I am thinking I can yank one of the drives from the first ...
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Hyper-V Virtual Switch not recieving any packets
I have a virtual machine set up with two network cards, one card is connected to a virtual switch for connection to the main network, the second is connected to another external port on the host ...
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Raid 1 or Windows Mirroring: Can I just detach one of the HDDs and use it?
I am deciding on RAID level and one feature (requirement) I like to have is to be able to (have the freedom) detach one of the RAID HDDs, plug it as a USB disk to my laptop and read/backup/recover its ...
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How do I specify what PVs are used for mirroring when adding a mirror in LVM to an existing LV?
I've got an existing VG containing a single LV on a RHEL server that consists of a handful of SAN disks. In an effort to migrate the server to a newer SAN, I'd like to mirror the existing storage to ...
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Hyper-V and physical switch trunk port SPAN/mirroring
I'm new to the Hyper-V and trying to setup a lab. Here is my setup:
Cisco switch with a SPAN port (configured to mirror in/out, replicate the encapsulation, source port for the span is a trunk). I ...
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How do I mirror a folder (copy only missing and changed files recursively) in windows?
I'm trying to find a fast way to recursively update a folder and all subfolders from another folder. Obviously, a full delete and Xcopy would work but that is very slow.
After the update, the ...
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Mirroring linux installation
I have a live server that I want to completely mirror to a 2nd server so if something were to happen to the live server the backup server could simply be plugged in and ready to go.
How do I setup a ...
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Windows Server Almost Real-Time Directory Replication
The environment
Windows 2003 R2 Standard File server
Windows 2003 Web Edition server
The challenge
Need a way to mirror a directory (or share) from the file server to the web server. It needs to ...
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How to create a Mirror of an NFS Share?
For back-up and restoration purposes the purpose of retiring an old server, I will need to create a perfect mirror image of an NFS share. This mirror is not a simple re-direct, but rather, an exact ...
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Virtual Disk Degraded
There is a physical DC with a Raid 1 Mirror, 2 Physical Disks, 500GB each. Dell Server Administrator is installed on the DC, and is reporting both physical disks are fine, online, in a good state etc. ...
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Unix server mirroring solution
We have three servers running Ubuntu Server 10.04, load balancing between them through DNS. We use Django, nginx to serve content and PostgresQL as database.
For PostgresQL, there are some mirroring ...
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What's a simple app to mirror a folder of files (windows) to a remote server (linux)?
I have a windows box that I want to sync with a remote computer.
Changes on the windows box should be reflected on the remote computer. Files are never changed remotely so it really just needs to be ...
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Mirror directory, only purging files in destination directory older than 7 days
I would like to mirror a directory, but only delete files in the destination directory older than 7 days.
Situation:
- Directory A is mirrored to Directory B.
- A file from Directory A is deleted
I ...
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How to transfer large files between two remotes by using a third machine?
I need to automatically mirror a large amount (terabytes) of files in two unix machines over a slow link (1 Mbps). This needs to be done frequently, but the data doesn't change too much (delta ...