Load balancing is not the problem ... the data needs to sync ... and
these are mail servers, which makes it interesting ;)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dogsbody [mailto:dan (at mark) dogsbody.org]
> Sent: 21 June 2006 12:55
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:05825] Re: Redundancy
>
>
> > 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
>
>