Computer Gurus (? need help)
 

My cousin owns a pizza place, and they have a ocmputer system for there ordering, last week the DB crashed and they were withoutg a computer for 2 hours at 6pm there busiest time. He wants me to get him a computer to keep as a backup, whats the best way to setup a computer that will be an exact mirror of the running one and have at most a day or 2 old exact copy running on it?

I could think of A way, but maybe not the BEST way.. I'll leave this one for someone more knowledgeable.

RAID 1 yo.

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/...eLevel1-c.html

Dont want raid, want a whole second computer incase hardware failures

Another case of the blind leading the blind...Which begs the question...

WTF did your cousin ask you for when you are as cluless as they are?

how about you stay out of my threads, I know pletny of ways doing it which includes weekly ghosts images of the system, but I figured i would ask and see if someone has a better idea

How about if you go suck a cock?

If you knew fuck all about computers then you would not be asking shit like that around here.


Maybe your bro Lensman could offer you some personal assistance over ICQ. He used to own a computer store, ya know.

Good choice, Ill have to call his cell phone later today and ask him

A. make a ghost image
B. make a ghost image .. install on an EXACT same pc (cpu,mem,mobo etc) and then do remote syncs every x minutes so that the data is 1:1
C. make a backup pc (see B.) and use a tape device to backup the database
D. Make a backup pc (see B.) and use a network share to copy the data

or go pro and get some pro software (arcsoft, veritas whatever)

I thought you wanted no more than a day or two of missing data? At any rate, do a weekly base backup and daily incrementals. If something fails, just restore the backup to another pc.

Good one so far, thanks PussyTeenies

A weekly ghost image would be like a lower quality Raid setup.

I can think of 2 ways Pete:

Order 2 new identical computers and 1 raid controller card.
Take the hard drive out of computer 2
Install the raid controller card in computer 1
Install the second drive as a raid clone of the primary drive

If something happens, pop the one of the drives out of the broken machine, put it in the secondary computer and there you go.


But really, if he's looking to protect against database failures, it would be best to use an external (offsite is even better) drive as a backup and schedule database dumps.

Buy a backup computer - any model. Install the DB program on that new computer. Test it and make sure its running.

Buy a 1gb memory stick and plug it in to the computer that is in use.

Set up your windows backup program to take a backup every x-hours (do it every hours in the opening hours) make it stores it on the Memory stick.
Set up the backup so it keeps the last 20 or so backups, and overwrite the others.

If the main system fails you can plug in the backup computer, restore the database from the memory stick and go back to work within minutes

There are better ways of doing it for sure, but this one is simple and can be done by one with almost NO computerskills, if you make them a sort "to do" list in case of breakdown

If its linux, install a 2nd nic and use rsync
http://howtoforge.net/mirroring_with_rsync

If its windows, install a 2nd nic and use rsync
http://rsync.samba.org/nt.html

The easiest way would be to add the folder where the db is to network sharing and setup a scheduled task to copy it over to the other computer
You could set this to go every minute or hour or however you want it

call me Bill .. ;)

Imagine how impressed we all are.

While you have him on the phone, you should ask him if you can trade him exit sales for a GFY skin so you can fuck him like you did Mayor.

never knew he screwed Mayor - did that happend while i was away?

Not sure when you were away. Ramos went off on Pete about it on PC not too long ago.

How about you get your facts straight before talking shit.

we may have a winner here :thumbsup

Facts:

1: You wanted to skin PC but didn't have the funds to do so. $7,500 I think.

2: You arranged a deal with Mayor to pay off the debt at a higher rate of 10k on terms of you sending him traffic.

3: At the time the drama hit, you had sent about 8 sales.

4: You threatened to pull your links because Ramos called you out.

5: You returned and kissed ass to save face.



So....Which facts do I have incorrect? Have you squared up the balance of that debt yet?


Here's another fact for you.....Your server is not very secure. Let me know if you want me to post some specifics about that as well. :glugglujg

i was wondering how long it was going to take ....

all this shit for a pizza place? cant they just take orders by paper for a few hours?

I miss you, bro.

Are you going to make it to the LA show next month?

............ :upsidedow

are you sure? you didnt give me a hug goodbye :1orglaugh

im making a concerted effort.

No, but I did offer you some of Mayor's delicious brownies. Ended up leaving it in the microwave since you didn't eat it.

I should have fed it to the nosey neighbor's dog. :1orglaugh

hmmm i coulda sworn you downed that.

if you fed that to the dog that wouldve been funny as fuck - that dog woulda been tripping balls real hard.