reference to building a backup machine.

[akonstam trinity edu]

--ve a server that supplies NIS as well as NFS service to 50+ clients.
We would like to construct a backup machine that if the primary server
went down would continue to provide NIS and NFS service if the primary
server went down. This might be two different machines. We know about
NIS slave servers.
Could anyone point me to a reference of somewhere were this problem of
running a backup server has been addressed and solved?

There must be a simple solution but those I come up with don't satisfy
me.

One problem that faces us is that our user directory partition is
large and not quickly copied.

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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
Trinity University
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