[Contrib: Evaluation System] Hot backup server questions

Aaron Zeckoski azeckoski at unicon.net
Thu Mar 8 11:42:59 PST 2012


I think most people run with multiple servers and the system should
handle that just fine. You should be safe to run more than one server
(load balanced would be better than just having it idle though).
-AZ


On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Rick Moyer <rmoyer at umd.edu> wrote:
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> I'm attempting to upgrade to sakai 2.8 and our latest version of course
> evaluation, which is the only tool we run in sakai.
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> Now our system admins are demanding that we keep a live, hot backup server
> running.  I believe this will cause issues when the evaluation reminders and
> various other jobs run.
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> One solution they have is to uninstall the evaluation and job scheduler
> tools from the backup server and when needed to use the backup server
> install the war files.
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> Currently, we keep a cold backup which has been turned on once in the 5
> years of running course evaluations.
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> So my questions are...
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> How are you handling a hot backup server?
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> How are you preventing duplicate job from running?
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> Thanks,
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> Rick
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