[Casper] Disaster Recovery

[Miles Leacy]

Craig's setup sounds great.  If you use LDAP (OD, AD or other) accounts in
your JSS, you can avoid any account issues.

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2009/2/10 Ernst, Craig S. <ERNSTCS at uwec.edu>

>  I have our second Mac server setup as a secondary distribution point that
> gets synchronized automatically each night. I actually have a folder in the
> same CasperShare folder for the database backups to save to as well so they
> too get replicated to the other server.
>
> In theory, if my primary server bit the dust I should be able to run the
> JSS Setup Util against the second server, get it installed, then install the
> most recent nightly JSS Backup already saved up to the server, update the
> DNS pointer and it's done. Might need to fiddle with user accounts and
> permissions for the file share as well. Shouldn't take more than 10 minutes
> though.
>
> Someone let me know if my logic is off here. I know I brought up this
> discussion before as well.
>
> Craig E
>
>
>
> On 2/10/09 10:44 AM, "Cyrus Vahhaji" <Cyrus.Vahhaji at bestbuy.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking into implementing Disaster Recovery and wanted to see how users
> on this list go about doing this for JSS. Currently have two servers
> dedicated for JSS use. One is the production server running JSS and
> repository for all data/packages. The other is in stand by in case case
> primary goes down. What I like to learn is how quickly you can recover if
> your primary goes down and how you go about backing up/sync to your 2ndry
> server if any.
>
> Thanx in advance
> Cyrus
>
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