High availability question

[CLIFFORD ILKAY]

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.

[snip]

>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 

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