At 03:46 PM 28/08/2003 -0400, Sidney Shapiro wrote:

I am running a hosting server currently equipped with a backup diesel generator. Since the blackout, I have been considering a backup high availability system, where if one would go out, the other would pick up the slack. I have been told that this is impossible, and can only work if I use a high availability scheme which would always keep one server running.

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Does anyone have an idea of how I could offer live (or rsynced to 2 hours) backup/live services for hosting. I would like if one server went down, the other would take over. Is this possible?

<http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/> seems like it might fit the bill. I have not tried it but it is on my TODO list of things to check out. Regards, Clifford Ilkay Dinamis Corporation 3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1419 Toronto, Ontario Canada M4N 3P6 Tel: 416-410-3326 mailto:clifford_ilkay-biY6FKoJMRdBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml