Re: Is clustering a good solution for this?

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Thanks. From the research we've done, we thought that a Majority Node
Set Quorum would do data replication between nodes,

Yes, but only for the Quorum data, not User or Application data

Rgds,
edwin.



but now I see that
it would require at least 3 nodes, so it looks like your assessment that
a replication solution would be better is correct.

Thanks,
Trevor

John Toner [MVP] wrote:
Clustering does not provide any sort of data replication between nodes.
You
would need some form of shared storage that is common to both nodes.
Since
you've mentioned that the other node would be at a separate site, you're
looking at a "multi-site" cluster...based on your quick description, I
think
this is not an option for your budget.

You might consider looking into Double-take from NSI software or some
other
IP replication software to accomplish this.

Regards,
John

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"Trevor Holyoak" <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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We recently built a Windows 2003 server with an iSCSI storage array for
keeping backups on. We also just moved from a workgroup to a domain on
our network, and plan to keep all the user profiles on this new server.
We also built an identical server at another site, which we are using
as
a backup.

We've looked at different ways of keeping both servers synchronized.
We're currently trying out a program called SyncBack, and we have also
looked at much more expensive ways of doing it.

We've also been looking into clustering, and wonder if that might be
the
best solution, since it's already built into Windows and would
apparently provide hot failover for the user profiles.

What are the pros and cons of using clustering for this? Any
recommendations or comments would be very helpful.

Thanks,
Trevor




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