Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
Curtis Vaughan wrote: > I plan to put DRBD w/Heartbeat on a Debian (sarge) Postfix server w/ > Courier-imap. > > My question is this. Obviously one directory structure that I will be > synchronizing (making a drbd block device) would be /home > However, although I would like to be able to synchronize all users and > their passwords, and all postfix settings, that would mean making /etc > also a drbd block device. But that's not possible now is it - or not > advisable as I would be synchronizing files that are box specific > (/etc/fstab, /etc/network/interfaces..., /etc/hostname, etc.). > > An obvious solution would be an ldap server - but that is not an option > for certain reasons. So, is there a way to accomplish this? > > Also, have I left out any other directories that I probably should be > synchronizing but just didn't consider? > > Thanks. > > Curtis > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user > I use drbd for all my data which needs to be duplicated, spool directory, home directory and maildirs, for the information in the etc directory, I use unison http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ which allows you to specify directories, or just individual files to copy over. With keychain and ssh passwordless logins, you can run cron jobs or bash scripts to automate it. Look into it.