Rsync assistance
I would like to have backup web serving capacity at a totally different data center - configured so that it will automatically work in the case of a server going down. I currently use a reseller account with HTTPme (they are great folks FYI), and would purchase a second reseller account from another provider at another datacenter for this purpose. There is just one critical site right now that I really need to apply this solution too.
The plan thus far:
1. Keep the primary capacity with HTTPme
2. Get backup capacity that is at another data center
3. Use Zoneedit (or another DNS provider) for nameservers - and employ their Failover service.
All the above is easy so far. Now the hard part (at least for me - which is why I'm asking for assistance).
The first site I want to try this on changes content every day. I don't want to upload changes to two locations. I would like to continue to upload changes to the primary - and have the backup automatically sync with the primary.
I have read that a software program called Rsync is ideal for this, and that it is resource friendly.
It is however - not friendly for this user. The documentation is hard to digest. Or perhaps I need "Rsync For Dummies."
I want to set up a cron job(s) that will do this. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Keith
