Re: Rollover Backups

Laurie Young wrote:
> Hi everyone

Hi Laurie

This should all be doable
>
> It it possible to provide a list (2 is enough, more would be better) of
> backup servers, which behave in the following way
> * All requests go to the main server

• This is done by specifying all additional servers as "backup" when configuring them in the backend

> * If the server goes down, all requests go to the backup

• this is handled by setting the option above.

> * if the main server goes up - requests continue going to the backup
> (until manual intervention)

• This is done by specifying a cookie on your backup server - the requests will then continue to be handled by that server until the session expires (or the server goes down)

> /optionally/
> * if the backup server goes down, all requests go to backup 2

• If you have multiple backup servers make sure you do not specify "option allbackups" as this will send traffic to all of your backup servers, rather than progressing through them.

Chris

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Received on 2010/05/13 13:18