On Jul 23, 8:21*am, Alessandro Topo Galileo
<toglituttofinoalpunto.ale...@email.it> wrote:
> Il 23/07/2008 15.06, Mtek ha scritto:
>
> > My goal obviously is if the main server goes down, I can shut it down,
> > change my router to point to the other server, and I'm up and running
> > again.
>
> For mysql I think it is better to recreate database from mysqldump files.
> Doing this, you will loose changes made after mysqldump command.
> If this is not acceptable, you can set up mysql in master/slave mode and
> your slave has always the same data that master has. See mysql
> documentation on how to set up this, it is quite simple.


And going along with that, you still think RSYNC is a better idea than
ratting up specific directories and untarring them on the backup
server?