[TriLUG] clustering or server mirroring

[David McDowell]

I'm now a bit more than 50% through this article and lost as hell.  ah
well... it's killing my morning until lunch comes!  :)

On 4/19/05, burnett at pobox.com <burnett at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, David McDowell wrote:
> 
> > One in the same?  Here's my idea.  I'd like to use CentOS 4 if
> > possible to do this.  I would like to have my webserver mirrored on
> > another machine so that if one goes down, the site continues to run.
> > If I change a config on one machine, the config should change on the
> > mirrored machine.  Is this running a cluster or is this some other
> > kind of setup?  Basically I have some time at work to play.  Any good
> > resources for this kind of information?  Basically I want 2 servers to
> > be identical mirrors of one another so that if one of the 2 goes down,
> > I'm still online.  And, if I repair the broken one, it can resync
> > itself so that the mirror of the 2 machines is identical again.
> > Suggestions, links, etc?
> 
> You might want to look at the current issue of SysAdmin magazine. The
> theme for this month's (May 2005 - Vol. 14, #5) issue is clustering.
> 
> Among the several articles related to the topic this month is one on
> "Do-It-Yourself Clusters" (Linux-based) and another on "Linux
> High-Availability Clusters with Heartbeat, DRBD, and DRBDLinks".
> 
> http://www.sysadminmag.com/
> 
> best,
> Steve B / Badger
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