The primary purpose of the slave server is to provide a backup to the primary master server should it go down for any reason. The major difference between the master server and the slave is where they get their data.

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave).

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL using an SSL connection for encryption (to make it impossible for hackers to sniff out passwords and data transferred between the master and slave).

I run a master and slave Kerberos servers, which requires setting up kprop to run regularly on the master server in order to transfer any changes to the slave server.

This tutorial describes how to set up database replication in MySQL. MySQL replication allows you to have an exact copy of a database from a master server on another server (slave), and all updates to the database on the master server are immediately replicated to the database on the slave server so that both databases are in sync.

Microsoft-Novell slave trade in the words of Simon Phipps

An important aspect of administering a CentOS server is to understand its package management system and its various online repositories. Together they ensure you are always running a secure and updated server.

There are different ways to take Backup from MongoDB. Using mongodump is one of simple and efficient way to implement it. The bash script presented here take backup from replica set after verifying that current server is slave and then transfer it to separate backup server along with capturing vital information of all steps in log file.

There are many options available for Linux distros, over 500. Most of you can make into a server. Basically, a server is a computer that provides services for other computers, like a web site, or DHCP or ftp download, etc. So it does not take much for a computer to act as a server.