thanks for the suggestion but we are a Microsoft shop. Also the backup is in a building across town so the "shared primary" wouldn't be on the same subnet.
thanks again Kevin -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: 17 February, 2010 5:36 PM To: InterMapper Discussion Subject: Re: [IM-Talk] Backup - Redirection Kevin, perhaps configuring your OS with hot failover scripts would work well for you. Most *nix flavors can be pretty readily configured to monitor each other and take over answering for a 'shared primary' IP. Randy Millsop ----- Sent from my iPhone On Feb 17, 2010, at 1:27 PM, "Kevin Wigle" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is that time of year again that someone asks the question about > disaster recovery and Intermapper. > > I constantly backup the Intermapper Settings folder but "they" want > a more involved solution. > > We have a backup Intermapper that I update constantly but it is > turned off waiting for the main to crash. > > So, "they" have just figured out that none of this is automatic. > > My question of the day is how to re-direct connections to > Intermapper at x.y.100.50 to x.y.101.50 > > That would be any and all requests (not just http) that arrives to > the crashed server should be sent to the new server but without the > users having to do anything..... > > I've seen hardware and software things to do this. > > Any suggestion on something simple? > > Kevin > > ____________________________________________________________________ > List archives: > http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ > To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected] > ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected] ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected]
