Bitcoin Forum

Hi

In my other post people told me this:

"miner status is good, many miners don't just mine on 1 pool anymore so it suits them"
"the best pools can have downtime and you want to be prepared for that. Most of the latest miners allow you to setup backup pools that your miner will automatically switch over to if it loses communication with your main pool. For this reason you will want to have accounts with at least 2 different pools."

My question is....
how do you do this? Do you open both mining clients and both pools at the same time? how do you set up to automatically switch over? 

Thanks!
B.

You could have two mining clients running 50% towards each pool, or use CGMINER and either set it up for pool fallover when one goes down, or load balancing which presumably would distribute your hash's between your multiple pools. I only use the fallover option myself, never tried the load balancing.

cgminer has a few failover/load sharing modes - all detailed in the extensive README :)
I only mine on 1 pool so I setup failover to different mining nodes for the pool (note not all pools have multiple mining nodes)
people on a single node pool should open an account with another pool and set that for failover in case of issues with the 1st or preffered pool. ie: if your pool goes down your hashes will automatically go to your backup pool.
I know of people with up to 10 pools in their list and p2pool or solo as the last option - nothing is going to stop these people mining!!

load balancing is another option, but you mine on 2 pools at the same time, if one has issue the other gets the full load.

also
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=78031.0 is about mining on multiple pools to reduce variance

so how to
install cgminer,
read the readme and setup cgminer how you want it,
open one client,
let it do it's job,
profit :)

hope that is a small help
Graet

try

ROLLPROXY