From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 29 03:24:37 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 51EBF16A4B3 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 03:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from apate.telenet-ops.be (apate.telenet-ops.be [195.130.132.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CBD544001 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 03:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n.b@myrealbox.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by apate.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with SMTP id 1CD7337EE1 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:24:33 +0200 (MEST) Received: from cronos.home.vsb (d5153CAA6.kabel.telenet.be [81.83.202.166]) by apate.telenet-ops.be (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A6B37E6C for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:24:32 +0200 (MEST) From: Guy Van Sanden To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1064831072.3638.7.camel@cronos.home.vsb> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4-1tex Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:24:32 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: NFS server redundancy/failover 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: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 10:24:37 -0000 Hello Does anyone know if and how it is possible to set up a redundant NFS server? What I want to do is this, I have a primary NFS server that serves home directories and data storage. I also have a second system with a lot of disk-capacity, I could set it up as a 'mirror' using rsync. Now, when the primary NFS goes down, clients should automaticly look for the backup one. My network is running both FreeBSD 5.0 (on the server) and Linux (Mandrake 9.1). Thanks for any suggestions. Kind regards Guy