backup copy etc

[flandercan]

Hi,

I have two identical sun servers, running sun os 5.6 i had the isea of using the second server as a backup to the first. I have looked at ways of copying files from one to the other into identical directorys, but can not mount a drive to the second server? I have tried mount //server/share mnt/sharepoint, but guess i need samba inatlled on the second system?? Is there a better way of doing this rarther than installing samba ???

I would be gratfull for any advise

thanks
Paul

 

[dbase77]

Hi,

Couple of ways to copy files from A to B. You can use NFS to mount remote share. Since both machines connected to each other, why not just use rcp or rsync. If you concern with security, tunnel it through ssh.


regards,
feroz

 

[mikeclark]

You can also use rdist, if scheduled regularly (cron job) the second machine can be kept up to date.

 

[syjl]

Set up your nfs share by editing the /etc/dfs/dfstab to look something like this.


share -F nfs -o rw -d "GIS share" /nas01

then /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop
then /etc/init.d/nfs.server start

then from the second server after you create directory /a

mount server1:/nas01 /a