Fallback to backup server upon failure of main server

[mustafa_jafar]

Hello, porting this interesting question from Discord Community by @Krishna_Avril.

Hi! Can Ayon docker can also run in multiple machines at the same time? like a backup when one machine fails otherone cometo the play?

[Yul]

Not a direct answer, but on a somewhat related topic (Ayon’s database backup) :

Backup AYON database/settings

Another question. How do we backup or even transfer the Ayon database/settings. i couldn’t find anything in the docs We’re setting up our server soon with Ayon etc. But i would like to have an autobackup of the database to another location, so in worst case scenario the server would die, we can load it in on another one. (preffered we’ve a redundant server with autoswitching etc etc etc, but this is something for next year)

[mustafa_jafar]

For Ynput Cloud users, It’ll be managed by us.

I checked it with the guys, and did some search online. please correct me if I’m wrong.
Also, tagging @milan and @dee.ynput.

Typical Solution

This topic is related to Deployment Strategies.

Currently, we can’t help the that at the moment. as there are some horizontal scaling challenges. They are in our backlog.
Once we sort these out, we’ll start supporting, mostly, Kubernetes deployments. This will give us some cool features like:

• Auto Updating
• Auto Scaling
• Auto Healing (which is the question mentioned in the post.)

Alternatives - Manual Fallback

@Yul

Not a direct answer, but on a somewhat related topic (Ayon’s database backup)

I’ve found people online doing the fallback manually via

• Using DB backups
• Replacing the server’s domain name in DNS

This was mentioned here postgresql - Fallback to backup server upon failure of main server without third machine - Server Fault, That’s where I got the name of the topic.

This solution may be helpful for you although it may not be recommended.