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R088ieS86

R088ieS86

R088ieS86

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Hey guys,

Here's the scenario:

A computer with the only purpose of holding data accessed by programs over the network. It won't be on their main server for a number of reasons which aren't that important.

Long story short the owner is scared stiff about downtime if anything happens to this dataPC as the business would be on halt until it is backup.

Now my thoughts are; with a decent UPS/surge protector the only issue would be drive failure which could be sorted by a RAID array.
But say they wanted a 2nd PC in case another component failed (CPU/mobo/psu etc) and they needed to be back up asap what would your suggestions be?

Cheers
 
For a start, no amount of redundancy is a substitute for a proper backup.

Secondly, how is this data stored? If it's just standard files, then you could replicate it to the second server. There are literally hundreds of ways of doing this.
 
R088ieS86 said:
Hey guys,

Here's the scenario:

A computer with the only purpose of holding data accessed by programs over the network. It won't be on their main server for a number of reasons which aren't that important.

Long story short the owner is scared stiff about downtime if anything happens to this dataPC as the business would be on halt until it is backup.

Now my thoughts are; with a decent UPS/surge protector the only issue would be drive failure which could be sorted by a RAID array.
But say they wanted a 2nd PC in case another component failed (CPU/mobo/psu etc) and they needed to be back up asap what would your suggestions be?

Cheers
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Two identical machines syncing the data on a near instantaneous basis or sharing storage (shared SAN or better still sync'd san with failover capacity).

A load balancing machine to act as the doorway redirecting call for the data to the primary machine. The load balancer periodically confirm the status of both servers and sends to the one marked as primary if both are live or the one up if one goes down. We have used 3DNS for this but it really depends on the method of data access. Should the load become too much as requirements grow you could convert to round robin load balancing but you may then need to add another machine or two to put the redundancy back in.

Another option would to virtulize the machine and cluster it with load balancing. As MikeHiow said, lots of ways to do it but lots of differences in price too ;).

RB
 
Sounds like a budget setup so get 2 pcs cheap raid card in one and mirror it.

Restore / copy all the data to the backup pc nightly,

Yo will also need to make normal backups
 
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