Re: backup server

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Wed, 25 Feb 1998 00:01:29 -0800

Jim Dunmyer wrote:
>
> We're relatively new to Emerald/RADIUSNT and are in the process of trying
> to bring up a backup RADIUS server. We're using SQL Server, and everything
> now runs on one machine.
>
> How do the rest of you handle this? Try to maintain a seperate server and
> somehow synchronize the databases? (there's several different ways to do
> this that we can think of)
>
> Is it possible to write the SQL database to a RADIUS text file and use that
> on the backup machine?

Just install RadiusNT on a second machine and point it to your
same SQL Server. That will give you redundancy on the RADIUS
level. You can use SQL Server's replication if you want to replicate
the database itself to another server.

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