-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Jun 2003, James Ogley wrote:
for the failover aspect, look at heartbeat.
Or SGI Failsafe. More info about Linux High Avaliablity can be found at http://www.linux-ha.org
As for mirroring the data, having it going all the time when one's just a backup to the primary (which will be unlikely to fail anyway), but prolly rsync with some wrapper scripts would do the job, or you could maybe look into some form of network RAID
DRBD comes to mind here, or the Intermezzo file system:
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/reisner/drbd/
http://www.inter-mezzo.org/
Both are already included in SuSE Linux.
Bye,
LenZ
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Lenz Grimmer