Re: Mirroring 2 Machines with rsync

From: bazzz777 (bazzz777_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/24/03 

Date: 24 Jun 2003 12:08:31 -0700

"Paul Sure" wrote ...

> What is the maximum time it may take to swap the systems in case the primary
> goes down? Does a takeover includes ip addresses or is just a matter of
> starting the applications on the other system and telling the users where to
> find it?

The two machines have different IP addresses and
switching from one to the other would be done via
DNS. Most of the apps are already running on the standby
system. Switching should take a few minutes I would think.

Thanks for the feedback.

Baz

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