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Hi Matthias

Thank you for your answer.
I think I'll do it that way, I was wondering if it would have been possible, Solaris supports giving multiple servers when mounting NFS shares, but I couldn't find something similar on FreeBSD and Linux.

Kind regards

Guy

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 14:30, Matthias Teege wrote:
> Guy Van Sanden <n.b@myrealbox.com> writes:
> 
> > Does anyone know if and how it is possible to set up a redundant NFS server?
> 
> Somthing like that is expensive and mostly not needed. Rsync with a
> hot standby system is ok. If the mainserver fail, go to the second
> and reconfigure the ip interface.
> 
> Bis dann
> Matthias