Replication system

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Mon Nov 3 15:27:04 PST 2008


On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:35:59PM +0100, Jordi Espasa Clofent wrote:
> I have to build a clustered website with FreeBSD 7.x as SO and Apache  
> 2.x as httpd. As load-balancing solution I'll use HAProxy (or maybe a  
> OpenBSD relayd, I'm not sure).
>
> Because of several technical (and especially non-technical) reasons, I  
> haven't the possibility to mount a shared storage layer (NFS, SAN...) so  
> I have to share the local data among the different httpd servers.
>
> At first approach I've thought in rsync+cron, but
>
> ¿anyone knows another replication-data solution in the described scenario?
>
> PD. Please, don't advice to me to using a pure shared-data layer... I  
> know it will be the optimal structure, but as I've said above, I can't  
> use it because various reasons.

Try ggatec(8) and ggated(8).  They perform replication at the filesystem
level, over the network.  I do not have experience using them.

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