Am trying to build a highly available and fault tolerant file drop location in linux server. Please find the current system design below:
We got 2 linux servers in secured zone into which several clients from unsecured zone will be dropping files in batch mode using xcom utility. Each client has got different times to send files based on business use-case. Now all clients have been configured to drop file into server1. But this design is not proper as it do not addresses following issues:
- If server1 goes down no way for clients to push files into secured zone unless configurations updated to send to server2 manually.
- If server1 goes down there is no backup of files in server2.
Am looking for a solution like a load balancer that can put files in a round robin fashion OR keep server2 in a passive mode(automatically accepts when server1 goes down).
Am not sure this is the best approach. Please share your views and ideas to achieve this.
