Thank you, thank you Lee! John
Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 10, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
