How to create a mirror site on east coast

[ttrsux]

Hello,

I have a few servers in San Diego which we are going to mirror and set up on the east coast for load balancing/redundancy. Is there a way of configuring mirroring within IIS, or is another program like rsync necessary? Also, same with keeping the databases up-to-date. Sorry if I posted this in the wrong area -- wasn't sure if it's a Server 2008, IIS, or Data Transmission question.

Also, I assume duplicate DNS records will need to be set up with east coast IP addresses and with lower preferences (or not?). I definitely wouldn't want someone in New York to have to contact our San Diego servers for information when there are already servers in New York in which they could obtain the data twice as fast.

Any direction is appreciated...

Thanks!
T

 

[mrdenny]

Keeping the web sites in sync is pretty easy. You can either push the ASP.NET site to both servers manually, or use DFS, robocopy, rsync, etc to sync the files.

The database is the hard part. If you are using SQL Server you can look at database mirroring, which will probably be your best bet. You should post a question about that specifically in the SQL Admin forum.

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[ttrsux]

Thanks Denny,

I wasn't notified by email that you responded to this question, not sure why when I clicked E-Mail notification. I will post my question in the SQL admin forum. As for keeping the website files in sync; sounds like rsync will be the easiest. I'm familiar with DFS -- never set it up in a production environment, but from what I remember it's kind of a tedious setup.

-t