Re: [cobalt-users] RaQ2 OS Recovery

[Diana Brake <diana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:37 PM 6/19/2000 -0500, Ed Booher wrote:

<snipped stuff>
>   I want to
> start doing some wild and crazy things to the secondary RaQ in an
> attempt to better understand the piece of hard ware and so that I
> can implement a mirroring scheme so that the secondary RaQ is
> identical to the primary in every respect and the primary RaQ
> writes all changes to both systems so that if the primary dies
> the secondary will still be online.

<stopped snipping>

I too am VERY interested in just such an arrangement. I just received the 
second (identical) RaQ2, and it is now mounted above the first. My coloc 
provider has been excellent to work with, but this is new to us all so 
we're looking for info.

Can the two RaQ2s be connected to each other via the serial connection 
(neither of mine have the SCSI  ports)? Can the backups be transferred over 
this serial connection?

If so...or not...can we use cron jobs to automate the backup from one to 
the other and can we set the backup machine to "believe" it is the same 
machine as the first so that all we have to do is move the network 
connector from the bad machine to the backup?  ie: both machines have the 
same IP identifier, but the backup not actually be connected to the main 
network. If set up so that the IP had to be reset on the backup machine 
once the first one went down..that would not be a bad thing from our point 
of view but it would be an extra step...eliminating steps might save 
mistakes...:)

waiting with great interest,

thanks,
Diana

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