<div>Hi Michael,</div>
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<div>MS > While a "do it yourself" approach is of course possible,<br>MS> there is also a commercial software available which does this out of the box<br> </div>
<div>please could you supply details (or a URL) for the commercial solution that you mention above?</div>
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<div>Many Thanks</div>
<div><br>Darren</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Stauber</b> <<a href="mailto:bq@solarspeed.net">bq@solarspeed.net</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Jason,<br><br>> 1. None of the Internet resource pages for BlueQuartz (Home page,<br>> SourceForge, etc...) seem to be active. Is this still an active and
<br>> supported project and if so what Web resources have I missed?<br><br>The official homepage for the BlueQuartz project is <a href="http://bluequartz.org">http://bluequartz.org</a><br><br>> 2. On the BlueLinQ page only the YUM Updater works. All the other update
<br>> pages give: "BlueLinQ was unable to retrieve a list of packages from the<br>> BlueLinQ server located at ." Presumably I am supposed to fill in the<br>> relevant servers in the settings area. What should I put there or should I
<br>> in fact leave as is and forget about this facility?<br><br>The only relevant menu entries in "BlueLinQ" are this:<br><br>"YUM Updater": This is how you update BlueQuartz.<br><br>"Installed Software": Shows installed PKGs and software components.
<br><br>All other menu entries are more or less deprecated and a carry over from the<br>Sun Cobalt times when patches and updates were delivered as PKGs. They're<br>just left in for historical reasons and to give third party software vendors
<br>the ability to distribute their PKGs.<br><br>> 3. Now the hard question. I would like to synchronise a second<br>> geographically separate server with my master for DR reasons. The second<br>> server will be on a different IP address and in the case of disaster I
<br>> would point the relevant DNS records (not held on the master) to the second<br>> server. However I would like it if any additions/changes to the Master were<br>> synchronised to the secondary along with site content. Users etc... I'm
<br>> guessing there isn't a simple solution to this?<br><br>That is something that BlueQuartz doesn't support out of the box.<br><br>There are several approaches imagineable to do that and which one is best of
<br>course depends on the expected usage and how much time, efforts and money you<br>want to invest, if you want to do it in a "do it yourself" approach, or want<br>to buy components or entire solutions that fulfill all or most of the
<br>required needs. Or something in the middle.<br><br>A "weak" solution would be to mirror the data through Rsync over SSH. I call<br>it weak, because the way BlueQuartz spreads the information around on the<br>
disks makes it difficult to use Rsync to mirror it all. It's possible, but<br>you have to have a good understanding of the architecture to make it happen<br>without breaking things.<br><br>Another approach is to use CMU to export sites and users on the primary, copy
<br>the data over to the secondary and import it there. This can be scripted to<br>run automatically on both ends, but isn't very relieable.<br><br>A better approach is to use clustering - for example with DRBD and Heartbeat.
<br>With or without virtualization. If you check the list archives you'll see<br>that this has been discussed in the past. See [coba-e:05068] and<br>[coba-e:08772]. While a "do it yourself" approach is of course possible,
<br>there is also a commercial software available which does this out of the box.<br><br>--<br>With best regards,<br><br>Michael Stauber<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>