On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Jordan Peacock wrote:
> Wow, I've been thrown in the deep end on this.
>
> I've used Linux on the desktop for a while now but this week I was asked 
> to set up a LAMP server, and it's been a very new experience for me.
>
> Now, I've been asked about taking said LAMP server and having a synced, 
> redundant backup that would take over automatically in the case of a 
> server problem. Is this doable, and if so, where do I begin to look?

Heartbeat for failover and DRBD for disk replication works reasonably 
well.

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