Date:  Wed, 21 Jun 2006 12:54:43 +0100
From:  Dogsbody <dan (at mark) dogsbody.org>
Subject:  [coba-e:05825] Re: Redundancy
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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> In theory you could use a script bring down cce gracefully, tar the 
> essential stuff and copy somewhere at like midnight or so and then bring 
> it back up and copy to an alternate location.  There are a lot of file 
> to be concern, but should be possible. In the event of a crash you will 
> need to untar on top of an existing server and will recreate the 
> environment. cce will take a few seconds to copy so the server should 
> not be down for more than maybe 10 seconds or so, the rest is simple 
> copy of files.

Or you just move the hard drive into a new (identical) working server which 
would probably take just as long :-)

Surely if you get to this stage then you may as well invest is some proper 
dedicated high-availability servers with load balancers? for each of your services!?

Just my 0.02 GBP :-)

Dan