[DRBD-user] Using symlinks to mirror data of system directories...

Lars Ellenberg Lars.Ellenberg at linbit.com
Sun Sep 25 21:09:29 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


/ 2005-09-25 10:28:16 +0200
\ Holger Wöhle:
> > Fabrice Durand wrote:
> > 
> > > Now I would like to make data mirroring on a system directory (like
> > > /ect/ha.d/  /etc/mon/  ...)
> > > with DRBD on Debian HA cluster. To do this, one have to use 
> > symbolic links.
> > 
> > 
> > BTW: Mounting /etc/ha.d/ on /drbdmount by heartbeat would not be 
> > possible, as /etc/ha.d/ containes files necessary before the mount ...
> > 
> 
> ..yepp! 
> /etc/drbd.conf /etc/ha.d/* are needed by the cluster to startup...so you
> have a "class a catch 22" .
> I use a rsync script to replicate the files under /etc like
> passwd,group,shadow,samba,ha.d,drbd,conf,hosts a.s.o. 
> If you are interested i can pm it to you, ok ?
> 
> p.s. should i post it to the mailing-list ?

only if it is better than csync2
 http://oss.linbit.com/csync2/

 :)

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