From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 30 02:39:55 2004 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 557B216A4CE for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 02:39:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from geofront.co.uk (port-179.dolphin.c4l.co.uk [80.253.114.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F0243D3F for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 02:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Received: from Localhost (host81-153-128-129.range81-153.btcentralplus.com [81.153.128.129]) by geofront.co.uk (8.12.9/8.12.6) with SMTP id i4U9eZJh081509 for ; Sun, 30 May 2004 10:40:35 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Date: Sun, 30 May 2004 10:39:35 +0100 From: Mike Woods To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20040530103935.53cf783c@Localhost> In-Reply-To: <020501c44619$d44e6250$6501a8c0@yourqqh4336axf> References: <020501c44619$d44e6250$6501a8c0@yourqqh4336axf> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: NFS server fail-over - how do you do it? 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, 30 May 2004 09:39:55 -0000 On Sun, 30 May 2004 02:43:37 -0500 "adp" wrote: > Just curious how this problem is being solved. I cant say i've ever looked into it myself but id susjest an easy solution would be to have a cron script store run every now and again to ping the servers and change the mounts depending on what the responce is. also if your backup system is bespoke and can be modified you could use amd and have the script read stored data on nfs server availability so it can decide where to backup the data. -- Mike Woods IT Technician