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Hmm, it seems me also :) or at least the last one I got was when hery28 revived and old topic trying to make it look genuine lol Had I not visited now I wouldn't have known about the reply.

Good evening mate :)

...when spammers think that replying to posts from years back, and trying to make their posts look legitimate, that we won't be able to figure out what their game is ;) Or, let's post something that looks innocent, and then go back and edit our post later and put spam links in it ;)

Probably because Mandrake 8.1 is old and won't work on newer hardware. UUID's were not used in Mandrake 8.1, they didn't appear until probably like 10 years later. Migrate your system to a newer version of Linux - Mandrake 8.1 is old, insecure and a security risk, and not going to work on newer hardware.

What would we do without you @paul :beers: Would be good to somehow re-invent the forum and get it going again, although probably almost impossible.

Yeah looks that way. Sometimes we get a spammer registering and attempting to post. After the demise of Mandriva, everyone else has since moved on. Would be cool for a reunion of all the people that were here during those peak times we had.

Upgrades...we need upgrades :)

Well, as per email, Poland now :D doing alright, just taking life as it comes. How's 'bout you?

Cool :) Am working on my systems, just disappointed that they put PHP 7.4 and not PHP 8.0 in the release. But at least I can use Ondrej Sury's repo for PHP 8.0.

@paulnice :) I've been using Buster for a few months now, so good to see it released. I noticed one day not so long ago that the site wasn't accessible, so I guess that was then the updates were in progress :) Good to see it back working again, although bit of a ghosttown here now.

I suggest haproxy it will probably be easier than heartbeat with ldirectord. With heartbeat and ldirectord I use direct routing rather than masquerade, as it's faster, just a little more effort to set it up. So if you want something simpler for the beginning, use haproxy as it's pretty straightforward.

To mirror it you'll need a second server with all the same services that you have on the other servers. However it will require changes to the existing servers if you want to replicate the data and have it shared between them. You can use glusterfs for that. You can configure heartbeat for failover to the server with the data copied and services doubled up such as apache, DNS (bind), samba (smb), etc, etc. It's not going to be too simple to do, it will take a bit of work. PS - likewise, and glad to see someone popped in to post :)

Local mirror of which server? Your own? You can do it a number of ways. If just a backup, you could rsync everything in terms of configuration for DNS, squid, Apache, samba. I don't see a reason for doing a backup of the squid cache, as it expires anyway. With rsync, you can use it just to pick up changes, and also with the --delete parameter, it will delete and user data that was deleted between backups. Otherwise, it will just keep adding and adding files even if a user deleted. Rsync can be done over SSH, or you can setup rsyncd on the server in question, and then just make a cron to run nightly. Alternatively, if you want to mirror it, you could also have it run as an active/standby server with HA. If one fails, then the other becomes active without having to restore data from a backup. It all depends on what exactly you want to achieve.