ConfigServer backup

[mika]

Has anyone been able to define a configserver backup?

thanks,

[Jim]

If your running CME you can export the data and keep it remote.

[Victor]

Supposedly, you can define it in CME under Backup Server option.
It is rather simple just create an extra configuration server application, set the host and the port number. You will also need to specify the following three parameters under the options (make a confserv section first):
stbstatus
primaryhost
primaryport

It is rather simple and it works.


What we do is use FirstWatch, which allows us to define the same computer alias for two separate machines running config server. For example, you have NTserver1 and NTserver2 both running config servers. FirstWatch would have an alias, let's say NTserver which you would use in your TServer startup script, for example, to connect to the configuration server. FirstWatch will decide whether a connection to NTserver will go to NTserver1 or NTserver2.

You can also do it via a TServer configuration file by specifying two configuration sections in the tserver.cfg file and mentioning the second config server under backupserver option of the first configuration section. I think this would be a soso solution because you would have to mention it for all the other products that connect to configuration server.

Tell me if you got it to work!

Vic