Re: [Nolug] Controlling another linux server's daemons?

"Chris Jones" <techmaster@gmail.com> writes:

> The primary concept of a backup is to duplicate data to a different
> spindle, so if you have twin servers, you can essentially back them up
> to each other.

Not precisely what you want (remote daemon shutdown), but a way to
accomplish what you need (duplicate data), have you looked at LVM
snapshots or DRBD (http://www.drbd.org/)?

An LVM snapshot would allow you to create a snapshot of the data on disk
using a minimal amount of space.

DRBD is like RAID1 over a network, so the same data is written to two
different systems.

One of these may be something you can use.

Mark.

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