--- Forwarded Message from TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> --- >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:16:12 -0600 >To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum <[log in to unmask]> >From: TennesseeBob Peckham <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #5967 backup for servers ------------------ Our server, used for web, chat and a few other things, but not heavey on sofware dispensing to lab patrons, is on an old PM 7600 (using MkLinux and Apache), we have bored and stroked it, bak up the the box (not monitor) with a UPS, and it has been up for as many as 290 days at a time, with no glitches, but I will probably be replacing it within the year. I have varied feelings on backup. One of our problems is that unless you substitute a box with an identical IP and domain name (+ identically structured files), you are going to lose users. Gobe-Gate gets well over a half a million hits per year, and some patrons directly link specific pages (which are spread over four servers). If I set up a home page on another box, it will have to have an alternate set of link pages, and. When I get my new server, I will set my pages up so that everyone using them will be regularly exposed to its alternate (I currently do not have alternates [mirrors] for all pages). TBob Robert D. Peckham, PhD Director, the Globe-Gate Project Director, the Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center Department of Modern Foreign Languages Univ. of Tennessee-Martin http://globegate.org/french/globe.html