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Have a look at http://www.drbd.org/ and heartbeat. hth James > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:owner-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf > Of Mark Harvey > Sent: 07 October 2003 16:41 > To: Devon & Cornwall LUG > Subject: [LUG] > > > Hi all. Looking at something at work at the moment. One of > our sister companies had a problem where the motherboard in > their server failied and their system was offline for a week > (don't ask me what their hardware support company was doing - > running in circles like headless chickens I think!). They > have now been advised to have a second, backup, server. The > package supplier has advised that the data will be copied at > the end of day, which means that in the event of a failure, > the data could be as much as one day out of sync. Is there a > way that _we_ could implement a second server whereby that > data was kept concurrent? I know there was an article on > building a backup server in Linux Format a while back but > AFAIR that used cron to copy the data and therefore it was > not a fully concurrent system either. Any suggestions > gratefully received. Many thanks in advance, Mark Harvey -- http://www.Newquay-Plus.co.uk For information on Newquay and the surrounding area. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.524 / Virus Database: 321 - Release Date: 06/10/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.524 / Virus Database: 321 - Release Date: 06/10/2003 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.