From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 12:26:19 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97D8516A4CF for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:26:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from sparky.webaries.com (sparky.webaries.com [209.128.231.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20EEA43D1F for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 12:26:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@atopia.net) Received: from mail.webaries.com (sizzle.webaries.com [209.128.231.139]) by sparky.webaries.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 77527228; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:26:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from 24.225.162.3 (SquirrelMail authenticated user matt) by mail.webaries.com with HTTP; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:26:17 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1477.24.225.162.3.1072643177.squirrel@mail.webaries.com> In-Reply-To: <200312281103.36613.mlists@northglobe.com> References: <20031226173013.96397.qmail@web60301.mail.yahoo.com> <200312281103.36613.mlists@northglobe.com> Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:26:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Matt Juszczak" To: "Nicholas Basila" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: samy lancher cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup Server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 20:26:19 -0000 I read somewhere about the AMANDA project. Is that any good for a situation like this? > On Friday 26 December 2003 12:30 pm, samy lancher wrote: >> Hello all, >> I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server. It is our Email, web and database >> server. I would like to setup a backup server so that when the main >> server goes down the backup server takes over its job. Could some one >> please tell me the best way to setup a backup server and also suggest >> some good documentation. > > In order to keep the data synchronized, you could possibly used some > sort of shared scsi or fibre channel drive/array. You'd have to write a > script that would run on the backup and tell it to mount the drive and > startup the databases when the server was down. > Shared scsi might be the easiest, but you'll have to buy some > Y-terminated scsi cables so that the main machine won't reset the scsi > bus on the backup machine when it (the main machine) goes down. > > Nicholas > >> >> Thanks in advance, >> Naveen. >> >> >> --------------------------------- >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >