AW: AW: [IRCServices] Backup Feature?

[Michael Smith]

There is absolutly no point to a failover services, there is no proper way
to keep 2 sets of DB synced nicely. The point being, if connectivity
fails, the one set of services wont be able to read from the others DB
anyway. And there is NO point to run services twice on the same machine.

The only POSSIBLE solution could be...

On a second server, should that server detect that services goes down, it
brings up a set of services (with a db that is synced 2x a day, in READ
only mode, ie no changes... THe nice thing about this is, when the main
services comes back up, we are not dealing with 2 seperate DB's.

This model could work in a net that has frequent and long netsplitz as
well

Mike



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Michael Smith (Warlock on IRC)
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"The software said Windows95 or better... 
                ...so I got Linux"


On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Yusuf Iskenderoglu wrote:

> 
> Hello;
> 
> > you are assuming that the internet feed never goes down.  We had an
> > outtage of over 2 hours one day, where the server running services was
> > fine but the internet connecion was down.
> > 
> I assume nothing, because:
> 
> You cannot have to sets of services on different computers, for they HAVE to read the
> same DB. Any solution using NFS/SMBFS may also fail, if the network itself is down.
> And, two services with different db's does not make any sense.
> 
> Result: If you want them to read the same db, place them onto the same computer.
> Network filesystems may work, but again, secondary set may even not start, if there are
> bigger connection problems.
> If they are on the same computer, there is really no need of adding that functionality.
> Cron will do the same job.
> 
> Regards;
> yusuf
> 
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