Using OttoFMS for a Disaster Recovery tool

Our current hosting provider (not Ottomatic) has a really nifty Disaster Recovery process, whereby Windows Snapshots are leveraged to be able to spin up a back server pretty easily, with, for example, a 15 minute window of data loss.

I’m interested in seeing if anyone has done something like this, but using a scheduled OttoFMS Migration (Install/Replace type)?

I’m envisaging having a backup server, which would have to be running all the time, and then just have a scheduled script which triggers an appropriate OttoFMS task.

Considerations:

  • We’d still have to switch DNS over to move traffic over.
  • We’d need (where required) to replicate Data API / Admin API keys stored by OttoFMS.
  • Native FMS Admin Console schedules would also need copying over.
  • We’d need either a wildcard SSL cert on both machines, or have to move the cert files over too.

But before I go down this route, just thought I’d see if this was something that was technically feasible, and whether anyone else has tried this?