[CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning

Kai Schaetzl wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote on Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:55:49 -0600:
> 
>> A spare computer that can be swapped in to replace any of 4 other computers
>> without requiring a lot of setup between "the main machine died" and "the
>> spare is now online."
> 
> But what about the data? What is a "web sevrer" or a "file server" worth 
> without the current data?

This was to be my point exactly ... what good does a machine that can
boot up into a file server with last months data or a web server with
last months data be if the current server just died?

If you have a backup system in place with the ability to push certain
directories onto this machine, then maybe.  Otherwise, this seems fairly
pointless.

A live solution with Virtual Machines and something like DRBD might work
... though the machine would by fairly heavily loaded just keeping
everything updated if live for 4 other machines.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes


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