Topic: Fall Over Server

[del]

Hi All,
I have searched the forum but have not really found what I need, simular stuff but not exactly the same. I have one SME Server running OK and I want to set up a second server that mirrors everything the first one does, so if the first one falls over I can use the second one to carry on until the first one is back up running. I hope this makes sense! Thanks.
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[chris burnat]

I am doing something like this for a number of installation using the rsync contrib from Dungog.net.  Two identical servers used as file server, all ibays from the online server are replicated using rsync (over ssh) onto a standby server.  Rsync jobs can be scheduled at regular intervals, i.e. every hours or whatever.  In our particular case, we rsync evey four hours, this allows the retrieval of files deleted by accident on the main server.

[MSmith]

There was a "high availability" contrib to do exactly this for previous versions of the SME server, but I don't think it's been updated.  You might check the Bug Tracker.