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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