Failover clustering of storage servers

Dario Lopez-Kästen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.zope.zodb.dirstorage
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I have a question about failover klustering of storage servers with 
Directory Storage.

We have recently started to investigate the possiblity of using 
DirStroage as a component in failover clustering.

The idea is that we have two machines, one master and one slave both 
with directory storage.

The master is repliciated to the slave, say once every minute.

The slave runs a heartbeat-script (essentially a ZEO-client script) that 
  chekcs if the master is running. If not it shuts down the master and 
reconfigures itself to take over the masters identity.

By some undefined magic, all zope-clients get restarted in order to 
re-establish connection with the ZEO-server.

At most we loose aprox. one minutes data.

Does this sound like something that can be done with directory storage? 
Has anybody done something similar to this?

Thanks for any input.

/dario

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Dario Lopez-Kästen, IT Systems & Services Chalmers University of Tech.


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