From owner-freebsd-isp Mon Jul 23 19:31:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from opensrs.saignon.net (216-120-17-31.dsl.cust.tfb.com [216.120.17.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F8BC37B403 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:31:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@saignon.net) Received: from tsaignmobl (216-120-17-17.dsl.cust.tfb.com [216.120.17.17]) by opensrs.saignon.net (8.11.4/8.11.3) with SMTP id f6O2Wl411922 for ; Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:32:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@saignon.net) From: Tony Saign To: Subject: Redundant setup on a budget?? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 19:31:33 -0700 Message-ID: <000101c113e8$c1f9f990$0600a8c0@tsaignmobl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We are a VERY small outfit, (with limited funds as well) and I would like to provide a somewhat fault tolerant setup, can anyone offer some advice??? Currently have 1 FreeBSD 4.3 machine providing web, email, and secondary DNS services. I have another identical 2 system ready @ a moments notice to replace the primary in the event of a hardware problem. I tested this out, I can simply dump the last good backup on it, and to my surprise everything looks good! My question is this: Given the fact that we have 2 systems available what would the easiest way to accomplish an 'automated' rollover of services?? Could the machines be somehow synchronized, similar to the PDC/BDC NT model?? I can do this in a Windows NT (YUK!!!!!!) environment, but have limited experience with BSD. I am in process of removing our NT server!!!!! :) (happy happy joy joy!) Feel free to offer advice off-list, it would be GREATLY appreciated. THANK YOU in advance, -Tony To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message