[NTLUG:Discuss] "Web site temporarily offline"

Daniel Hauck daniel at yacg.com
Sun Apr 19 13:10:10 CDT 2009


Wayne Walker さんは書きました:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:25:08AM -0500, David Simmons wrote:
>>
>>> I have my main web stuff on a VM and occasionally, I like to run backups
>>> of the VM but it takes at least 20 minutes.  During that down time, I
>>> would like to have another machine detect when the server is down and
>>> assume the server's IP address so that it can say "Web site down for
>>> maintenance.  Be back soon!"
>>>
>>> I imagine running a small VM that would run whatever processes needed.
>>>
>>> Anyone know any magic tricks to accomplish this?
> 
> The question you asked its how to show "site down".  I'd rather answer:
> 
> How can I backup my server without it going down?
> 
> I highly recommend that you use logical volume snapshots, eith in the
> VM guest ot on the VM host so that you can just create a snapshot, let
> the server continue to run while you backup from a read only snapshot,
> then drop the snapshot.
> 
How do you do that?  Running VMWare server 1.0.x



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