[SAC] Test Drupal Instance / Role of Backup Server

[shawn barnes]

Frank,

Yes the second server was/is meant to be the backup server if anything
happens to the main server. Right now it holds the backups of the main
server and there is still some work for this machine to automagically
'mirror' the main.

The reason we set up a test instance of drupal on the second machine
over the holidays - we had accesss to it and it's identical to the
production server for testing.

shawn

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Shawn, etc,
> 
> Currently OSGeo has two machines hosted at Peer1.  One is the machine
> holding
> the drupal instance, svn, trac, ldap, etc and the other, as I understand
> it,
> is essentially a frequently updated backup of the main machine that could
> be used as a backup.  Is that right?
> 
> My understanding is that some of us have been using this secondary machine
> as a place to test changes to drupal, ldap, etc.  Is this appropriate? 
> Isn't
> there a risk that the backup will be botched when we are actually need it?
> 
> If we shouldn't be using it as a development server, should I look into
> getting
> the dev instance described below updated to match what is on
> www.osgeo.org so
> it can be used for testing?
> 
>   http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/DevelopmentDrupalInstance
> 
> Kanhaiya - can you comment on what challenges there would be in duplicating
> the main server as closely as possible on this dev server?
> 
> Best regards,