UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

All,
I am working on planning a redundant SFTP setup and some jobs are ran using cron jobs. Would there be a way to some how failover a crontab to another server?

Well that's a tough one, it's hard to prove cron isn't working right without duplicating cron, and just duplicating it wouldn't be useful... You could have scripts that check if the master server is online first before attempting to do the job perhaps, but if that isn't done right you could cause yourself a lot of problems.

You could use SSH to check if the file exists on the remote server and initiate an SFTP session if:
You'll need to setup keys on the local servers and the remote server to get this to run without password prompts.

HTH

All,
I guess what i'm looking for is if somehow the server went down from the network or powered off, the other server would be able to load the cron file and take over the cron jobs.

Any ideas?

would the local server even have all the scripts and relevant data files to run everything in the remote server's crontab?

Corona,
the setup would be 2 load balanced SFTP servers. The scripts are actually push scripts to send to different locations. I would have the data mounted on a cifs share so that both could access what it needs.

THe problem comes in if one of hte SFTP servers goes down, they both can't be running the same transfer scripts, it would cause conflicts.

So, I would want for somehow the other SFTP server be able to begin running the cronjobs if the other failed.

It seems most likely I'll just need to rsync a copy to the other and manually activate it if that happens :/

Yeah. It's not the usual sort of failover problem where clients connect to one server or another, it's a standalone thing that somehow has to be made aware of the universe...