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From: Andreas Davour <ante@Update.UU.SE>
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Gregor Mosheh wrote:

> My employer is looking for solutions to achieve
> zero-downtime in the event of a hardware failure. I've
> been doing sysadmin for some time, but this is out of
> my league, and I wanted to ask the list for any
> advice, hints, etc.

What you need then is some kind of clustering. If you want a really good 
one, look at OpenVMS. It's not very much like FreeBSD, though.

/andreas

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