Server mirroring

[gsoldani]

We are a medium size theater arts company and are going to
start selling our own tickets rather than outsourcing the
service. I would like to have a backup server in the event
of a major crash of our primary server. Does anyone have a
recommendation for mirroring two windows 2000 servers so
that the backup can be used if the primary fails? Can
windows do this, or is there some third party software I
can use? Thanks.

 

[Guest]

If you are running Windows 2K or 2K3 you could have the servers run in a cluster with a dynamic disk attached. Keeping your critical data on the dynamic disk. When and if you primary server crashes, the backup server takes it's place with the critical data intact. If this is a web-based site, you could run MS Application Center 2K, this allows you to build multiple web sites that load balance between eachother, and the servers don't have to be identical.