All the steps in this procedure must be automated as far as possible. The required manual steps should be limited to starting an existing step for which has a script or command file already been prepared.
The steps that require automation are:
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File system replication.
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Database replication.
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Database backup.
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Alerting if any replication or backup step fails to take place.
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Detecting a failure of the production server and alerting.
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Failover to the standby server.
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Triggered manually but following an existing script.
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Failback to the production server.
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Triggered manually but following an existing script.
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