John Plemons wrote: > The web machine uses a PHP shopping cart running atop MySQL, all of the > main and important information is kept as a part of the MySQL DB. So > the main thing I would want to mirror is the application and the DB. > I'm a surplus dealer, so hardware isn't a big issue, I have extra > servers that can be up in a couple of hours without any big layout of money. > I'm just looking for the best way to keep down time to a minimum and as > always to KISS, Keep It Simple Stupid. Simple to manage, simple to > maintain... Use rsync for the PHP files and read up on setting up mysql replication, endless howtos and stuff out there for doing that. Keep the slave db server in read-only mode until you need to fail over to it, flip the read-only bit and restart, off you go.. nate