Backing up my data

[locbtran]

I have a couple of old computers at home and would like to turn them into servers for my friend's site, snooples.com where they are all cluster together (I think this is the right terminology), so if one computer fails, then the other one kicks in. This way the server will always be up.

I just want to know if this is possible?

Also, if one computer is corrupted or becomes infected, will they all be infected as well (since they are clustered)? Then what is the best way to back up my data?

thank you

 

[Homenet]

Yes, what you are talking about is load balancing. For it to be effective you will probably want some kind of disk to disk mirroring between the servers. In which case then if one set of data becomes corrupt (which is unlikely) then the other one would follow suit.

Your best bet is to look at what kind of data your storing and then consider your backup strategy. If your site is mainly based around a database then consider doing daily backups with hourly or 2 hourly transaction log backups.