From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 13:59:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA03020 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:59:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from net1.netview.net (netview.net [199.3.74.250]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA03010 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 13:59:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from corona (ip76.microsoft.com [199.3.71.76]) by net1.netview.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA09528 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:58:00 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:58:00 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0b26.32.19961104170017.00ae7730@netview.net> X-Sender: jrclark@netview.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0b26 (32) To: questions@freebsd.org From: John Clark Subject: Redundant FreeBSD Server Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello, I was wondering if anyone out there was running a redundant FreeBSD configuration. I am looking to install a second server to "mirror" the first in order to have redundancy. I can figure out how to write a script for a second server to examine the first for integrity, and copy the contents of the pertinent directory structure once a day, but I was wondering how to tell the second server to start servicing requests when it realized the first was down. In both cases I would need to be paged in the event of a failure. I suppose I am looking at a software / hardware solution. If anyone has information on this topic, or knows where I can go to become more educated on this subject, please advise. Thank you, John Clark [email@john.net]