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You need a High Availability solution.<br />
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Check for this page:<br />
<a href="http://www.linux-ha.org/" rel="ugc">http://www.linux-ha.org/</a><br />
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You need a High Availability solution.

Check for this page:
http://www.linux-ha.org/ [http://www.linux-ha.org/]



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Well looks like either way we would go about doing this there is going to be some weekend work involved. My problem is that this box we are running now has been customised by someone with no documentation on what was done. That is why I was thinking of a cloning concept of some sort. Thats why I was looking into rsync but it has its limitations. <br />
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Please keep the suggestions comming<br />
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Well looks like either way we would go about doing this there is going to be some weekend work involved. My problem is that this box we are running now has been customised by someone with no documentation on what was done. That is why I was thinking of a cloning concept of some sort. Thats why I was looking into rsync but it has its limitations.

Please keep the suggestions comming



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Ok here is the situation.<br />
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I have an existing Linux box up and running. I cannot do anything to disruptive to it. It runs our mail and connectivity to the world. My question is. Is there a way to make a standby server with all files and everything I need almost like a clone, so that &nbsp;if something happend to server a ...can just plug in server b? <br />
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I have checked into rsync ...but from everything I have read about it, it does not like files that are locked or DB files. <br />
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Both box's are differnet hardware configs<br />
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Also I am open to the possablity of comerical products.<br />
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Thanks
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Ok here is the situation.

I have an existing Linux box up and running. I cannot do anything to disruptive to it. It runs our mail and connectivity to the world. My question is. Is there a way to make a standby server with all files and everything I need almost like a clone, so that  if something happend to server a ...can just plug in server b? 

I have checked into rsync ...but from everything I have read about it, it does not like files that are locked or DB files. 

Both box's are differnet hardware configs

Also I am open to the possablity of comerical products.

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Thanks

standby/redundancy server

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