So, you want what the IT industry calls "faul tolerance?" Good for you. Do you have a bootable CD ROM? Why not put the basics on a bootable CDR? Scaling up from there, the next step, imho, would be a second hd mirroring the first. Scaling further, a second controller for the second hd. Beyond that, I'm afraid, it's a second machine. Gregory Nowak writes: > From: Gregory Nowak <greg at romuald.net.eu.org> > > Hi all. > > I've been thinking of the possibility of a dark day when some piece of hardware should fail in my server, leaving it inoperable, and me up a creek without a paddle. > > I usually wouldn't have the time to setup another box to temporarily replace the failed one. Instead, I'd like to have things already set, so that I can make some minor tweaks if need be, and let a replacement run. > > I do have one more box with gnu/linux that I can configure as a server just in case. > However, doing so would mean that I would need to keep in mind that it should be a backup server any minute, and that I can't mess around with it like I could otherwise. > > What came into my head is to put zipslack/speak on a 250 meg zip disk. Then, should something go wrong with the main box, I can hook up my parallel zip drive into another box, and let it run until I was able to get the main box back online without being under pressure. > > I would strip zipslack to the minimum needed to run web, dns, and mail. > > The advantage would of course be that it would all be ready to go. > The disadvantage would be the 250 meg limit. > > I was wondering if those of you who run your own domains have prepared for the dark day I described. > > If so, I would appreciate it if you could please share your plan b for my brain to chew on and/or resynthesize to meet my needs. > > Some people may just ask why don't I take a couple of hours, install slackware on some other partition some where, and I'd be ready to go. > > It wouldn't be that simple, since I'd need to build software such as qmail from sources, and I have also pretty heavily modified my current slackware server's startup scripts to meet my specific needs. > > Thanks in advance for any thoughts. > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Director Technology Research and Development Governmental Relations Group American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
