LMV Snapshots

[Thomas Charron]

On 11/17/06, klussier at comcast.net <klussier at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> The backup server here also acts as a warm-spare. If the master server
> dies, I just change the IP address on the backup server, and it resumes
> right where the master server died. I have tested this a few times to make
> sure it all works, and it did. No one even noticed that the mail server
> died.


  Now if you wanted to be really cool, you could keep them in sync live, and
Anycast the same IP in two different locations via BGP routes.  Then they
both get used live - live, with the same IP, but if one ever goes down, the
BGP route changes so all traffic is then directed to a single system.

-- 
-- Thomas
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