----- Original Message ----- From: Dave Bourassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:26 pm Subject: (clug-talk) Re: Fault tolerant system mirroring?
> Roy Souther wrote: > > Has anyone used or found any software to do complete system > mirroring in > > live time? I want to make twin systems so that if one dies the other > > takes over instantly without human intervention. > > > > I have seen Novel do this and M$ fail at the attempt but I have not > > found any open source way to do it. > > > > Roy Souther > > www.SiliconTao.com > > > > Changing the way people do business. > > > Have a look at http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/ Roy. > > I can't speak on it, as I haven't used it, but it purports to do > live > backups even while running Windows, and supposedly supports linux's > various file systems as well. Does any one else on the list have > any > experience with Acronis' "True Image" backup software. It's > supposedly > better than Ghost and Drive Image. If you own Ghost, you can get a > copy > for only $9.95US. > -- > Hi all, If you want to do it on a network in near real time check out: Linux High availability is where ya might look.. http://linux-ha.org/ http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/SME_High_Availability_How-To.htm This How-To describes the following 'High Availability' and is intended to get you started. For now it?s intended for SME in server-only mode and focused on data redundancy. Complete system redundancy should be possible, but that is the next thing (unless you did it and are willing to share / contribute) Automatic Fail-over and Fail-back between 2 nodes (2 SME servers) Real-time replication of user data to both nodes (LAN RAID-1) On-line uncompressed user accessible backup of user data every 24 hours
