On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Jordan Peacock wrote: > Wow, I've been thrown in the deep end on this. > > I've used Linux on the desktop for a while now but this week I was asked > to set up a LAMP server, and it's been a very new experience for me. > > Now, I've been asked about taking said LAMP server and having a synced, > redundant backup that would take over automatically in the case of a > server problem. Is this doable, and if so, where do I begin to look? Heartbeat for failover and DRBD for disk replication works reasonably well. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------