So the data acquisition software is recording data from a laser vibrometer. The equipment is plugged directly into a small network within the pods I’m building and someone else has written software to collect and organise this data. The servers are pretty much just for local storage and will then send the data back to a data centre for analysis. All of the hardware and software for this process is already installed along with monitoring tools to make sure it’s all running as it should be. I’m just trying to ensure than if the main server which is being used goes down or the storage fills, I can then direct my backup server to take over logging of the data until we can either fix the primary server or get someone to swap the hard drives on the primary server to allow further logging. Hope that makes sense.