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[dico]

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

[nexzt]

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

[dico]

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

[mhosang]

I'm going to do the same...

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

[driverdave]

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.

[jaschwa]

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

[cbtrussell]

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