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Backups and Copying Content Between Servers

Here are some of the most common resources for setting up and maintaining your own webserver. You will find resources that I have found to be useful to many of my colocation customers. Be sure to let me know if you have any questions or if there is something you have found useful that you would like to share with others. Send me an email at ashaver@he.net

Offsite Tape Storage

Iron Mountain Offsite tape storage and backup services

Backup Solutions

Seagate TapeStor DAT 240 Autoloader
Compressed Capacity up to 240 GB
  • Six cartridge magazine
  • Up to 330 MB/min transfer rate
  • Up to 240 GB capacity compressed
  • Includes Backup Exec software, five DDS-4 cartridges and cleaning cartridge
Internal version at warehouse.com pn#DR13349 $2809.95

Copying Content between Servers

There are multiple ways to copy content if you are the administrator on a machine. You can use nfs and copy from one server to another. Other options not using nfs, are rsync, rcp, or scp. Rsync also works for mirroring.

Rsync can be found at freshmeat.net.

Copying MySQL

MySQL Hotcopy
MySQL Dump

Sync'ing files between Multiple Machines

rsync - File transfer program to keep remote files in sync

Running One Database on Multiple Machines

If you wish to run the same database across multiple machines for higher perfomance on heavy hitting sites it can be quite a challenge. If you are doing it on a site that is only updated once a day it makes it a little easier. Here are some tools to help.

mySQL failover to backup machine
mySQL sync'ing cgi
mySQL replicate'ing cgi

DBBalancer is a load-balancing, multithreaded PostgreSQL connection pool. It also has a replication mode to keep in sync the load-balanced backend servers.
Tar/GZ:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dbbalancer/DBBalancer-0.2.4.tar.gz


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If you have any questions please be sure to email me at ashaver@he.net