Re: High availability

["Taymour A. El Erian" <taymour.elerian@tedata.net>]

Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 August 2007 08:57:07 Taymour A. El Erian wrote:
>   
> > I want to make this more available, I have a DR site and I would like to
> > have an LDAP server running getting all the updates from the primary
> > site. This DR LDAP will be active in case the primary site is down and
> > will accept read/write operations.
> >     
>
>
> In my company, DR means a disaster has struck, e.g. a building has been 
> destroyed. So, you typically don't:
> 1)Do a DR failover for any trivial reason
> 2)Do a DR failover automatically
>
> So, just run a normal replica in the DR, and have a config file ready to be 
> able to "promote" it to a master. If you need slaves there too, just have 
> them replicate of the "DR master", so you have less config changes to do in 
> the case of a real disaster.
>
>   

Well, maybe I am not explaining correctly, we have a problem in the main 
site which could cause it to be unreachable for a couple of hours or so 
and in this event I want everything to run on the backup site. In case 
the main site is down, I need the backup to take over and even for 
writes and updates.
> Regards,
> Buchan
>
>   


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