Re: Best high availability solution ?

Bruno Wolff III a écrit :
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 09:36:23 +0200,
>   Arnaud Lesauvage <thewild@freesurf.fr> wrote:
>> I am the only IT here, and my boss asked me to find a way to have
>> the database always online, without my intervention.
>> Last time I went on vacation, the server crashed and no one was
>> able to repair it.
>
> Your boss should either cross train a current employee or hire an additional
> employee. What happens if you get hit by a bus? It sounds like no one else
> there will know what's going on. A person brought in after you are gone
> is going to take a significant amount of time to figure things out and the
> business may have serious probelms while that is happening.
> On the plus side you should be in a good position when it comes to salary
> negotiations.

We ARE going to hire a new employee, but we like to do many things
at the same time ! ;-)

--
Arnaud