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

[nate]

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