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David Somers wrote: > Torsten Martinsen wrote: > >> Brian McGuiness wrote: >>> Can anyone give us any pointers on how we would do this? Obviously we >>> need to install CVSNT but i'm not as clear on whether the repository >>> structure will work just copied wholesale, in particular surely the >>> CVSROOT folder contains stuff relating to the original server and not >>> the DR one. >> Actually, it does not. Copying the entire repository, including the >> CVSROOT directory, to another server >> running the same CVSNT version will be completely transparent to the >> users, assuming of course >> that you have set up your DNS properly. > > Don't forget that it may take some time for any changes to the DNS records > to propagate (i.e. the TTL) ... and depending on how your recovery system > has been set up (hot vs cold ... real-time vs batch mirroring), and what > your disaster was, the recovery system may not be up-to-date with changes > on the original system, so you may have some reconciliation to do during > the changeover, i.e. YMMV. > The dr server is always online although currently the backups are only done once per day, I understand that anything done after the last backup and before the disaster will be lost from the repository and have to be resubmitted by each client. Is there a better way within CVSNT to do this other than straight file copy? The DR server has a different name (and is on a different domain) to the original server - can we still just use DNS for redirecting it? cheers Brian