Hi There,

How would be the easiest way to mirror 2 Raq 4 units? I would like to have it so that 1 Raq remains working 24/7 and should something happen to the hardware that the second, mirrored raq, takes over the duties.

Any help would be appreciated,

-dr

Well.. thats pretty much why the invented the cobalt raq 4R :)

I'd like to mirror two Raq 4r, just in case something goes wrong with the CPU or something other then one of the hard drives. That is why I am wondering.


Any thoughts?

-dr

I'm going to do the same...

I think it's possible with the backup script wich i found in this forum...

Take a hour and learn rsync. I mirror my raq4 to a raq4 at the office. When our main raq4 goes down, 95% of our customers don't notice. Just set the TTLs for your DNS records to something low, so when things flip-flop, everyone picks up on it quick.

driverdave, can you give more information about rsync? Is it already on the server or does it need to be downloaded and installed?

Actually, the 4r only protects you against a single hard drive failure. Period. Nice, but hardly a failsafe. Its intent is really to protect your data, not provide redundant failover capability.

What you want is Cobalt Staqware. It constantly mirrors the data from the primary RaQ to a totally separate RaQ box, and should the primary fail, the secondary takes over.

Available on eBay for $2-300.

Hope this helps,

Brandon