On 09/09/2016 09:36 PM, John Robinson wrote: > All this to ask this question. I am going to need redundancy very soon, so > how do I set up a second Mini slave right beside the master? > > I can get the cabling working on both but how do you get the primary machine > to feed every change, every app update, every change to the Filemaker > database etc. etc. from the primary to the secondary? > > If one goes haywire I can't wait 2 weeks to get back in business, flip a > switch and continue as normal until the damaged machine is repaired. Is > there a way to do this? Maybe something built into the Mac OS?
An easy method would be to only have one machine running with an external hard drive. Use something like Carbon Copy Cloner to maintain a bootable clone on the external drive with incremental updates done often so it's always in sync. If you want to go more high-tech, get a NAS drive array such as those from Drobo or Synology with RAID capability. Use it as your primary storage. If a drive fails in a RAID array, you don't lose any information or time; you just hot-swap the failed drive and move on. I'm sort of doing this at home right now with a WD MyCloud. I don't use it for primary storage; our machines back up to the MyCloud by either Time Machine or rsync. L^2
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