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Title: Creation of a lIve Mirror SME Server
Post by: hasan on February 22, 2010, 06:04:10 AM
Hello All,
         Is there any way in which I can create a Live Mirror of my sme so that in case of any problem I have to just switch my servers. This is to avoid a long downtown as I can not afford that in any case.

I take a regular backup with affa, also I create a USB backup of my sme every fortnight, but still starting from scratch and reinstalling each and every rpm again will become a pain in case my server goes down.

Please share your ideas or suggestions.

Regards
Hasan
Title: Re: Creation of a lIve Mirror SME Server
Post by: thomasch on February 22, 2010, 07:29:39 AM
         Is there any way in which I can create a Live Mirror of my sme so that in case of any problem I have to just switch my servers. This is to avoid a long downtown as I can not afford that in any case.

How about Affa --rise ?
Title: Re: Creation of a lIve Mirror SME Server
Post by: hasan on February 22, 2010, 07:41:08 AM
Thanks Thomasch,
            I can ofcourse do an affa --rise but that will increase my downtime, as in case of a failure I want to just swap my present sme with a new system, which would have been already running as a mirror and getting continuously updated maybe online.

Is there any system like that
Title: Re: Creation of a lIve Mirror SME Server
Post by: thomasch on February 22, 2010, 07:55:00 AM
Thanks Thomasch,
            I can ofcourse do an affa --rise but that will increase my downtime, as in case of a failure I want to just swap my present sme with a new system, which would have been already running as a mirror and getting continuously updated maybe online.

Is there any system like that

hasan,

affa --rise consume only a little downtime

however, if you can't afford even a short downtime please search 'heartbeat' or 'drbd' or 'High Availability'.
This is what you after, but I don't know if there's solution/contribs/howto for SME 7.x. Maybe other member can help you.

Good luck.

tom