[NTLUG:Discuss] UNS: Re: "Web site temporarily offline"

[Wayne Walker]

With distro is the VM?  output of "df"?  OS / Distro of the host system?

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 01:10:10PM -0500, Daniel Hauck wrote:
> Wayne Walker ?$B$5$s$O=q$-$^$7$?:
> > 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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Wayne Walker
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