Mail Administrator wrote: > Dear All, > > I do have a centos 5 srver running the following. the server is a dell pc > with standard config > > 1 gb ram > 120 gb ide hdd > 3.2 ghz cpu > NIC > > > Mail server > Dns Server > webmail > Mailscanner > > now i would like to have another server like mirroring this server .. > so incase there is any problem with this server the other server is always > online and the problem server could be fixed without our users gettin > affected > > apprecite if anybody can help giving some clues or is there any software > avaliable. > also is the hardware in both servers have to be identical or it can be > different The easiest way to make that happen is to use a product called DRBD I say easy, but the initial setup will be fairly hard as you will need to link all the things you want to fail over into a partition that you can then MIRROR to another machine (if you use drbd). Here is drbd info: http://www.drbd.org/ http://www.drbd.org/users-guide/index.html Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080329/cf4557e6/attachment-0005.sig>