[ILUG] Fedora at heanet

[Nils Olofsson]

On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 14:28 +0100, Conor Wynne wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 01:15:00PM IST, Timothy Murphy
> > <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> incoherently babbled:
> >
> >> I know esat has a feed;
> >> I just wondered if there was some reason why heanet has stopped theirs.
> >
> > The HEAnet ftp mirror had a few disk failures during the week.
> 
> Thats explains a lot, the updates (yum) were painfully slow.
> 
> > Last I heard, they were resyncing the content.
> 
> I decided to blow away my ubuntu box and instead make an offline server.
> Offline meaning services just stopped as the machine is a workstation.
> 
> So I nuked it and installed centos4 instead (same config as the server)
> As the server only has a single IDE drive, as does the workstation, I
> copied /etc across and modded it to suit.
> 
> So now if I cave a catastrophic failure in hardware, I simply switch it
> off and run a script which starts all perfectly on the workstation.
> 
> RSYNC is my friend here. But I'm wondering how to use rsync in a script so
> that it can run via crontab without entering authentication manually.

try something like this :

http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/doc/cluster.cipp#cluster_ssh


> This is what I've done so far (Thanks Padraig)
> rsync -auz -e ssh remote:/dir/ . && rsync -auz -e ssh . remote:/dir/
> 
> > --
> >
> > Conall O'Brien
> 
> Regards
> Conor.

nils