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Article #903Re: High Availability for NeXTs
From: carsten
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:37
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:37
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In article <1992Oct14.160708.462@afs.com> mikem@afs.com (Mike Matlack) writes: > In article <1992Oct8.195446.8138@liveware.com> todd@liveware.com writes: > > In article <1992Oct5.210010.8108@almserv.uucp> rmcghee@fnma.com(Rich > McGhee) > > writes: > > > Has anybody spent anytime thinking about or working on a High > Availability > > > solution for NeXT machines? That is, redundant disk drives, two > machines > > > that switch over when one goes down? Any ideas? > > I too would like to know if anyone is interested in these > > NeXT sells insanely great operating environments and end-user machines, > not fault tolerant servers. You might consider buying a server from a > company who's in business to make fault tolerant machines (e.g. Pyramid or > Auspex) instead of trying to change, or add to, NeXT's focus. > > mikem > -- > Michael J. Matlack > Anderson Financial Systems > Mike_Matlack@afs.com (NeXTmail is OK) Right. At least mirroring of machines does not make much sense, if someone is working directly at it. And who would want a NeXT to stand alone in a corner? Carsten
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!news.univie.ac.at!chx400!ira.uka.de!Sirius.dfn.de!dct.zrz.tu-berlin.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!news From: carsten@pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: High Availability for NeXTs Message-ID: <34Z70WD@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de> Sender: news@mailgzrz.tu-berlin.de (News Manager) Nntp-Posting-Host: pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de Reply-To: carsten@pizza.fb10.tu-berlin.de Organization: ZRZ/TU-Berlin References: <1992Oct14.160708.462@afs.com> Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 18:37:24 GMT Lines: 31