Backup Server

[kur1j]

I am going to be replacing some hardware in my current server and was wondering if it is legal for me to have a second install of Vbulletin on a second server and then just forward the port to the server as soon i take the main server down. Making it the "LIVE board" while i take down the current one?Basicly this is will be a backup server for when i am changing hardware out in my main server. If you are unclear on anything just ask and maybe i can try and explain it better.

Also is there some kinda feature where i could have a LIVE backup of a database on a completly different server? I guess this would be a "mirror" db. Like as soon as any of the information is written to one DB the other has the same information written to it. But if one goes down the forum will still be up because of the mirror backup and as soon as the other db gets back up all the changes will be mirrored back to the DB that went down.


Errr i guess i should have put this in the server configuration. sorry.

[Steve Machol]

Yes, you can have a backup of your vB forums on another server. Just make sure it's not publicly accessible.

I don't know how to set up a mirror db though.

[AWS]

Check out http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Replication.html. That is what you want.

[kur1j]

Check out http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/Replication.html. That is what you want.
That is what i want but it looks ruff to setup. Has anyone had any experience with this? Has anyone actually got it working? How hard was it?

[AWS]

I have it set up across 2 servers. If you follow the instructions it will work perfectly. It looks complicated, but, really isn't.
Just do each step as it says.

[kur1j]

I have it set up across 2 servers. If you follow the instructions it will work perfectly. It looks complicated, but, really isn't.
Just do each step as it says.ok kewl thanks :D. When i get home i am going to try it. How long did it take you to do it?

[AWS]

I don't remember. It was while ago. I guess it was an hour or two at the most.

[Raz Meister]

Have you noticed any problems with it?

I've heard people saying it's not suitable for production.

[AWS]

Haven't had any problems with it. It even saved me extensive downtime when the main db server went down with a bad psu. Once I got it back up all I had to was resynce the db.