"Hot Spare" Server

[DrSwaity]

Hi there,

I have two servers, both with Windows 2003 Standard. What I would like to do is have one a hot spare. Have all the DHCP info, Active directory, shares, IIS 6 setup, and email system be cloned to my second server. The first server does everything, and I just want a clone on the second one. It will be offsite and updated over the internet. Is there a good way to do this? It would be really nice if the second server could "watch" the first server so when it goes down, the second one just takes over seamlessly. Oh, there is also files stored on this, so files would need to be copied over to the second server as well.

Thanks for any help!

 

[NortonES2]

I believe the preferred method of doing this is to buy the Enterprise editions of server and exchange, then use clustering.

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[NickFerrar]

Yeah you'd pretty much have to do a geographically dispersed cluster, which involves a lot of headaches and you'd have to rebuild your current environment from scratch.