From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 28 08:03:45 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 2782D16A4CE for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:03:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from dns1.popstick.com (dns1.popstick.com [66.37.210.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1223943D46 for ; Sun, 28 Dec 2003 08:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mlists@northglobe.com) Received: (qmail 46366 invoked from network); 28 Dec 2003 16:03:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO messageharbor.southglobe.com) (24.218.147.6) by 0 with SMTP; 28 Dec 2003 16:03:41 -0000 From: Nicholas Basila To: samy lancher , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:03:36 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031226173013.96397.qmail@web60301.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031226173013.96397.qmail@web60301.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312281103.36613.mlists@northglobe.com> Subject: Re: Backup Server 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: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 16:03:45 -0000 On Friday 26 December 2003 12:30 pm, samy lancher wrote: > Hello all, > I have a 4.5 FreeBSD server. It is our Email, web and database > server. I would like to setup a backup server so that when the main > server goes down the backup server takes over its job. Could some one > please tell me the best way to setup a backup server and also suggest > some good documentation. In order to keep the data synchronized, you could possibly used some sort of shared scsi or fibre channel drive/array. You'd have to write a script that would run on the backup and tell it to mount the drive and startup the databases when the server was down. Shared scsi might be the easiest, but you'll have to buy some Y-terminated scsi cables so that the main machine won't reset the scsi bus on the backup machine when it (the main machine) goes down. Nicholas > > Thanks in advance, > Naveen. > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"