There are a few methods if you are primarily concerned with your FileMaker Server files.
1. The native FileMaker way is to set up something called Standby Server. It is an exact duplicate of your main machine that has a copy of FileMaker server running on it (one license allows for both). The first copy saves all changes to the the second one, so that if your first one fails, you can configure your second one to be the primary and be up and running in a matter of minutes. That said, the controls to manage this dual configuration approach are strictly command line and are kind of a PITA. 2. 360Works, a great company that provides a lot of tools for the FileMaker community, has a product called Mirror Sync that does a similar thing, but you can use both databases at the same time. You will need two licenses for FMS and one for MirrorSync, so this is not the cheap approach, but is super for having a data base running in two locations (for instance, two geographically distant offices). It is easy to set up and can actually work between pretty much any two database products, including FileMaker and a variety of SQL databases. The downside, like I said, is that it is the more costly approach. 3. Another approach is to have your files hosted in a data center where the hardware is a lot less likely to have an issue. More and more FileMaker developers are spinning up FileMaker servers in Amazon Web Services instances, and many consider it the future of FileMaker hosting. There are even ways to have the data only available on your internal network, totally separated from the internet. But, of course, Lee’s suggestion is a great one for a whole-machine approach and one I use on all my machines, as well. Jonathan P.S. Oh, and TechTool Pro would have found your bad memory and saved you a trip to the Apple Store, although that may have simply been an excuse to visit your favorite haunt. > On Sep 10, 2016, at 12:00 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I guess things happen for a reason, nudging me to prepare for the unusual. > > At the office I had a MacMini start acting flaky, ran DiskWarrior, didn't > help. Called Apple Tech support, fantastic lady from Canada spent at least > an hour helping. s > She felt I had some bad RAM and scheduled a Genius Bar appointment . At the > Bar sure enough I had one of the Crucial ram that had gone bad. > > Ordered replacement & installed today, with the holiday I have been without a > machine for a couple weeks. > > 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? > > Thanks for any help. > > John > -- Jonathan Fletcher [email protected] Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group Next Meeting: 9/27/16 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
