Re: [CentOS] Best way to backup and entire machine??

John Plemons wrote:

I want to mirror a Centos box, not having done this before, I'm looking for guidance.

What is the best way to perform this task, I have a running webserver, a single external IP address to the website, and wanted to protect myself should the server go down. My though would be a mirror of that webserver, running in background, if the main server dies, then just move the mirror in place, change the IP and go on... Limiting down time...

Depends on what data is on the system, if it is just static content then I would configure the backup system the same way as the primary and setup a rsync over ssh job to keep the web content in sync.

If there is a database or other things then it can be more complicated.

nate