Redundant Servers

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Mon May 16 11:17:00 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 23:09 -0400, Greg Swallow wrote:
> Anyway, to my question for y'all. I now have five boxes on this render 
> network; 192.168.1.0:
> 
> 	firewall	192.168.1.101		1x PII550MHz	(still down waiting for EPROM)
> 	render	192.168.1.102		1xP42.53GHz	(no more cluster, went to single 
> modeling workstation)
> 	g5		192.168.1.103		2xG5 1.8GHz	(had to get work done during the 
> arguing so I bought a PowerMac)
> 	server1	192.168.1.104		2xPII300MHz	(2xPII300MHz; 256mb; 16mb nVidia; 3 
> NIC; 4x6 changer; 3, 1, and 40gb HDD)
> 	server2	192.168.1.105		2xPII300MHz	(2xPII300MHz; 256mb; 16mb nVidia; 3 
> NIC; 4x6 changer; 3, 1, and 40gb HDD)
> 
> Ended up getting out the only none UDMA drives I had; NEC 4x6 
> CD-Changers. Hey FC3 Booted and installed from
> changer slot 1; hurray! Each of the five machines have 10/100 NIC going 
> to the switch. server1 and server2 also have
> two extra NIC bonded in a cross-over network between each other. I 
> would like to setup server1 with basic network and
> Samba settings and duplicate/mirror the same on server2. Then modify 
> each to bond and have server2 mirror and take
> over in the case of failure of server1. Anyone have a HowTo I could get 
> to?
> 
> Thanks for your support.
> 
> God Bless,
> 
> GregS <><
> 

Greg,

Take a look at http://www.linux-ha.org/ for the switch-over mechanisms,
and http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ for file synchronization.

Bob...





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