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  • Bill Isenberger December 23, 2014 at 6:23am

    I appreciate you guys and all your work.

    Happy Holidays

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    Andrew Tridgell December 22, 2014 at 9:13pm

    Perhaps I should mention the old adage that plumbers homes tend to have terrible pipes? :-)

    We don't have a real failover system, primarily because setting up and maintaining a true failover system is harder when the system is database backed (like ardupilot.com is). It can be done, but it is more complex. Right now I'm erring on the side of simplicity rather than minimising the risk of downtime. I am doing some work at the moment to improve the robustness of the system, but I don't think I'll switch over to a fully redundent hot failover system. I have run systems like that before so I'm very familiar with what is involved and for the moment I don't think it is a good use of our time to work on that.

    Cheers, Tridge

  • Darrell Burkey December 22, 2014 at 6:59pm

    @Bill. My apologies for being a bit cheeky. The point I was trying to make is that those who are keeping things running around here are highly qualified and certainly are well educated in backup systems. People like Rob, Tridge, Jonathan, Randy, the mods etc (apologies to those not mentioned) would rarely mention how much talent is here. Software engineers, aerospace engineers you name it. Can't swing a cat around here without hitting an engineer. It actually is rocket science by rocket scientists. :-) 

  • Bill Isenberger December 22, 2014 at 5:42pm

    Thanks for setting me straight Rob.

    Should have read closer, it appears that rsync is an optimized backup system rather than redundant.

  • Rob_Lefebvre December 22, 2014 at 10:36am

    Bill, Tridge wrote rsync. ;)

  • Bill Isenberger December 22, 2014 at 4:35am

    Hi Darrell, I don't know who the author is. I was just using that as example. I'm sure there are many solutions for a redundant server setup. Probably the easiest would be to use a hosting service that has redundancy and power back up.

  • Darrell Burkey December 22, 2014 at 2:56am

    @Bill Isenberger - I noticed that your recommendation for a fail safe uses rsync. Guess who the author of rsync is?

  • Bill Isenberger December 21, 2014 at 4:31am

    Might be good to set up a fail safe for your server.

    http://www.howto-expert.com/how-to-create-a-server-failover-solution/

    How to create a server failover solution
    An automatic server failover solution can prevent your website from going down in the event of a server failure. Through automatic detection, an erro…
  • Jethro Hazelhurst December 20, 2014 at 5:40am

    Thank you for all of your hard work, this project has been so successful because of the attention to detail.

  • Rob Dunbar December 19, 2014 at 7:57pm

    +Tridge, I applaud you for keeping up on your backups. 

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