Open Dental Forum

Hi all,

Right now, I have two identical blade servers (DELL) and I called them Dental 1 and Dental2

On Dental 1, I am running OpenDental and it has been running good with all workstations.

as of now, then only backup method I am running is CrashPlan Pro to backup OpenDental but this method still take long time to restore back in business. So I am thinking of setting Dental 2 server so that if server Dental 1 goes down (Could be hardware or software issues) then all workstations can point to Dental 2 server instantly and running.

Can you give me some idea how to do this method?

thanks

turn off mysql on server 2

do a simple file copy from server 1 to server 2, I use Karens replicator to do automatic backups.

Once a week I turn on mysql on server 2 and make sure the database is up to date by running OD.

steve

steve how often are you running karen replicator for those back ups...and you run it on the server or the back up machine

data get backed up noon and night everyday. Images every nite

I have a separate folder for each day of the week and a folder for noon. So at ant one time I have 6 sets of data. ie monday nite gets copied to the monday folder, tuesday to the tuesday folder.......

The only limitation of Karens is that it wont run in the background . So I have it always running on the main server where no one bothers it.

steve

Sorry for stirring this thread up again. I've been out for few weeks dues to other matters.

@Steve: 2 questions for you

1. On this Dental 1 server, I am running and storing ViXWin on it, do you have any idea what to do so that if Dental 1 server goes down, and when I activate Dental 2 server, VixWin is running as well?

2. On your suggestion above, Do I install OpenDental on Dental 2 server then disable MySQL?

Thanks for your help