At 10:56 AM 12/14/2001 +1030, John Peterson wrote:

>I wish to have an application fail over automatically to a backup server
>in the event that the primary fails (power fail, IB failing, LAN failing
>etc.), specifically to know if the primary is operating.

Have you considered shadowing? InterBase can create and maintain
a shadow - and fail over to it automatically, I believe. There's
also the possibility of a disk-level shadow which may be more
efficient.


Regards,

Ann
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