[Samba] samba as fileserver backup fileserver

[Matt Schillinger]

You should look at heartbeat (linux-ha.org) for High Availability.. But
You are opening a can of worms that will be difficult to handle.. rsync
will be really difficult to keep in sync, especially if users start
updating files on the secondary server.. You should do a search on
google for DRBD.. it is a form of network mirroring.. perhaps it would
be of use to you..

Matt Schillinger
mschilli at vss.fsi.com

PS> it looks like something may be wrong with your clock.. the message
you sent to the list says that it was sent april 27, 2000.



On Thu, 2000-04-27 at 00:12, mike webb wrote:
> newbie question, but i can't seem to find the answer anywhere. I would like to set up a primary samba file server and a backup samba file server. if the primary file server fails i would like the backup server to take over as the main file server as automaticly as possible. was looking at rsync to backup primary server share files to the backup server, i think that might be part of the answer but how in the world am i going to get a backup samba server to relise that the primary server has fail and take over as the file server ?? any help anyone.
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