Hello,

    I'm attempting to set up a master/slave system which has these partitions:

hda: Boots from master boot record
   /
   /home
   /boot
   swap

hdb: Boots from boot partition
   /
   /home
   /boot
   swap

As you can see, I've set up 2 hard drives that mirror each other. The only difference is that the master boots from the MBR and the slave boots from the boot partition.

So far this setup is working. The next step is to create an rsync setup that willl copy the entire master to the slave.

The idea for this setup is to implement the slave unit if the master fails.
I know this is much easier if you use a raid1 setup but, I want to take advantage of my full drive space on both 80 g drives.

Any Ideas for the rsync setup?


Thanks,
Clem C

This won't let you use any more space than raid would - you are still mirroring the drives, just less frequently and less reliably if you use rsync.

The rsync manpage is pretty good and a google for rsync will come up with some useful stuff.

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