[hobbit] Failover Hobbit

[Robert Edeker]

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 12:42:42 -0500, Jeffcoat, Al <ajeffco at orhs.org> wrote:
> Is anyone doing any type of failover or load balancing between two hobbit
> servers?  I know that there was a function to do failover in BB.  I have two
> separate servers that I've installed Hobbit onto, and am having clients
> reporting to both, and they both are "clients" for each other, but I just
> want to make sure I'm doing it the right way, and see if there might be a
> better way.

I'm currently using hobbit in a failover scenario, but only one hobbit
server is up at a time.  There are 3 boxes [small freebsd PC's] acting
in an active/passive/passive mode with the clients reporting to the
virtual IP.  The data is rsync'ed every minute so the data loss would
be minimal.

-r