[Casper] Disaster Recovery

[Ryan Harter]

I've got a similar setup to Craig, but I have 3 DPs (one xserve and  
two g5 powermacs running client) that i've setup a cron job to copy  
the nightly backups to.  In case of failure we just run Setup Util on  
the secondary server and import the latest nightly and then we still  
have 3 distro points while we fix the other server.

Ryan Harter
UW - Stevens Point
Workstation Developer
715.346.2716
Ryan.Harter at uwsp.edu

On Feb 10, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Thomas Larkin wrote:

> I have an ODM back up, that is sync'd and is set to a replica.  In  
> the case of failure I would demote the ODM to a stand alone via  
> server admin, and promote the replica to the Master server.  It is a  
> server that just sits there and does nothing besides sync LDAP.
>
> For my casper servers, I would just load the JSS on one of my xserve  
> distribution points and then create a policy that edits the /etc/ 
> jamf.conf and points it to the new JSS master while the other one is  
> being worked on.
>
> >>> Miles Leacy <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> 02/10/09 10:56 AM >>>
> I'd say your DR machine ought to serve as a secondary repository  
> that is regularly synched.  You should be running regular backups of  
> your JSS, scheduled through JSS Setup Utility and then backed up via  
> whatever backup system you have in place.
>
> When disaster strikes, you can run the JSS Setup utility on the DR  
> machine, and import your last backup.
>
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> 2009/2/10 Cyrus Vahhaji
> <Cyrus.Vahhaji at bestbuy.com>
>
> 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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