Re: Rollover Backups

That works if the server fell over, but not if there was a temporary network outage to the server :-(

2010/5/13 XANi <xani666#gmail.com>

> Hmm turn off autostart of your master server so it cannot "accidentally"
> go up ? U have to resync it manually anyway
> Dnia 2010-05-13, czw o godzinie 12:36 +0100, Laurie Young pisze:
>
> Thanks for the response chris
>
>
>
> * 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)
>
>
>
> Unfortunately the servers here are not web servers, so setting a cooke is
> not an option. I also need new requests to go to the backup - not just
> sessions already in play.
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> It's an instance of Redis, (a key value store). The main server would be
> the master, with the backup being the slave. If the master goes down and
> write operations get sent to the slave, we cannot send ANY requests to the
> master till we have been able to re-sync them (which is a manual operation)
>
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