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From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com>
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Subject: Re: fault tolerance with FreeBSD for old DOS app
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On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:36 +0200, B. Bonev wrote:
> I want advice for old DOS app on Windows PC, that I need to make on 2 PC-s 
> fault tolerant. Any advice for working solution on FreeBSD? 

Yep...rewrite the database in SQL with a PHP front end.  Import the data
from the old system.  Use a Radware/F5 Load Balancer for the web and
Slony-I for the database replication.

Welcome to 2008.

~BAS

P.S. In reality you could likely do a HA-VMWare GSX virtual machine with
synchronized failover, but that's off-topic here.