Disaster Recovery

[madunix]

I am running Zimbra open source on RHEL server , I want to alocate identical server with the same configuration and setup in 10km distance from my production site, what do i have to do to duplicate this server , which files and folders should i keep sync between the 2 servers .

i.e the 2 servers have identical hostname but differnt ip in order to mke regular sync between them.

[uxbod]

This may be of help to you :-

Hot backup question on open source?

Do a search for disaster recovery as it has been covered quite a few times. Also it would be helpful if you were to update your profile with the output from

su - zimbra
zmcontrol -v

[madunix]

Release 5.0.12_GA_2789.RHEL5_64_20090126051426 CentOS5_64 FOSS edition

[uxbod]

Great ... so please update your profile as in my previous post Thanks.

[madunix]

profile updated, Can I have more input regarding my problem.
can i do copy rsync /opt/zimbra between 2 servers

[uxbod]

Yes you can but you would need to stop ZCS first so that the services are in a consistent state.

[madunix]

Production Server:
[root@imail ~]# df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
51G 4.9G 43G 11% /
/dev/sda1 99M 53M 42M 57% /boot
tmpfs 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/emc5_vg1-emc5_lv1
50G 35G 13G 73% /opt/zimbra
[root@imail ~]# hostname -s
imail
[root@imail ~]# uname -a
Linux imail 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Fri Dec 5 09:28:22 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@imail ~]# su - zimbra
[zimbra@imail ~]$ zmcontrol -v
Release 5.0.2_GA_1975.RHEL5_64_20080130223104 RHEL5_64 FOSS edition

IP: 10.5.1.x
-------------------
DR Server:
root@imail[~]0[Mon Feb 02] [10:02:50]>> df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
257G 5.8G 238G 3% /
/dev/sda1 99M 19M 76M 20% /boot
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
root@imail[~]0[Mon Feb 02] [10:02:53]>> hostname -s
imail
root@imail[~]0[Mon Feb 02] [10:02:06]>> uname -a
Linux imail 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 11:57:43 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
root@imail[~]0[Mon Feb 02] [10:02:35]>> su - zimbra
[zimbra@imail ~]$ zmcontrol -v
Release 5.0.12_GA_2789.RHEL5_64_20090126051426 CentOS5_64 FOSS edition
IP: 10.4.1.x




Facts:
-The DR Server will be all the time offline, and will iclude all mail boxes of users
-The online and the DR have different operation OS RHEL5 64bit and Cento5
64bit
- The production allocated on separate LVM the DR on a filesystem under /
- Both are used as internal server (Intranet) no-routable for outside

[madunix]

Am thinking to use rsync command to sync both servers
any recommended script for this issue

Thanks

[uxbod]

Have a look at Open Source Edition Backup Procedure - Zimbra :: Wiki for different options and scripts.