We do that here. But the difference is it's not totally automated. If the primary server goes down for whatever reason, our admin's pager will go off, he lives 6 minutes from the office and 7 minutes from the backup server in another building. Simply he goes and get's the backup server, restarts it and at the lilo prompt he types 'clone' and we are back up and running.
Granted this puts us down for about 15 minutes, but it's there! Scott Thompson Programming & Server Admin Internet Brokers Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.internetbrokers.ab.ca Office: (403) 232-1032 Fax: (403) 265-2843 -----Original Message----- From: Shao Zhang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shao Zhang Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 7:30 PM To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: sort of a load balancing question Hi, This is not a really load balancing question, but similar sort of thing. We are an isp here and we would like to set up two webservers that are completely tranparent(rsync daily). We will only be using one webserver to server all the pages, but if it goes down, we would like the second webserver to take over without any downtime. Is there any programs out there that does this? Thanks. Shao. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _____ Department of Communications / __| |_ __ _ ___ |_ / |_ __ _ _ _ __ _ University of New South Wales \__ \ ' \/ _` / _ \ / /| ' \/ _` | ' \/ _` | Sydney, Australia |___/_||_\__,_\___/ /___|_||_\__,_|_||_\__, | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |___/ ____________________________________________________________________________ _ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
