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[albert]

gud day! i have a problem regarding servers, i have a
windows 2000 server which is without a back-up, my point
is how can i deploy a back-up server that support the
primary server containing our data? how can i deploy a
back-up server that the same computer name and ip address
of our primary server? and how can the data replicate to
each other? my point is if the primary server is down the
back-up server will going to give the service
automatically... i hope to hear from you... more power.

 

[Gerry Hickman]

primary server containing our data? how can i deploy a
back-up server that the same computer name and ip address

Sounds like a case for clustering?

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Clustering would be your best bet as Gerry said. When you bring that other
server online with the same computer name, only bad things will be the
result. Or you could look into having multiple DCs in the environment and
doing system state backups for the AD data and regular data backups for the
data.

 

[NIC Student]

DFS may solve this problem if you can remove the requirement to point to
just one server name or ip, instead you point to a domain name:

instead of \\servername\share

it is \\domainname\share

The data is mirrored between servers, file server functions are shared
between the two (or more) DFS servers, etc.

Overview of DFS in Windows 2000
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;812487

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Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE