NLB server 2003 content maintenance?
From: Mark (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/30/04
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 14:15:39 -0800
Hee hee...I wish i could say I've never had to ask that
same question. In a nutshell, there is no "easy" way to
accomplish this. Our biggest problem was real-time
replication of the content. I've setup a few working
senarios...
The easiest solution was to NLB the web servers and make
UNC calls to an active/passive file server. Using DFS to
replicate the content from the active FS to the passive
FS. That worked pretty good, except for the fact that it
required you to manually fix change the IP of the UNC in
the case of a failure. Plus DFS wasn't always "fast".
Another easy way was purchasing MirrorFolder. It's a $30
app that will replicate files in real time one direction,
and bi-directional on a schedule. It works fast too. I
had trouble with it replicating dynamic content. I would
run into locked file errors.
You can always write a robocopy batch file...which is slow.
Dude, this problem has haunted me for years. It's a
crying shame that all of these software companies realize
that this is a problme and go out of their way to screw
you out of $$$ for a fix.
Peace,
Mark
>-----Original Message-----
>We're planning to have a dozen or so web sites (lots of
>host headers) on two Network Load Balanced servers
>configured with two virtual i.p. addresses, using
>either Windows NLB or a hardware switch. We need to keep
>adding to and changing content on these web sites and
>imagine we would have a back-end machine with the web
>page content that authors were allowed to modify with
>Frontpage, then upload changes to the live servers. But
>how exactly do you do that? Please advise how you publish
>content and keep it updated and synchronised, on network-
>load-balanced machines.
>
>.
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