About Wireless Bridge Failover idea

I would like to set up 2 pair wireless bridge between two site . 1 pair wireless Bridge for normal use. another pair wireless Bridge is used when another pair wireless bridge link is fail
Building A
1 set Cisco Outdoor AP For Exising use (GB C AP)
1 set Cisco Outdoor AP For Back UP (GB D AP)
Building B
1 set Cisco Outdoor AP For Existing use (GB C AP)
1 set Cisco Outdoor AP For Back UP (GB D AP)
Building A
All AP (GB C & GB D AP)connect to cisco 2960 switch
Building B
As same as Buiilding A - All AP (GB C & GB D AP)connect to cisco 2960 switch
For this case, do you have what method for failover solution.
when GB C AP Link is down, data traffic can change to GB D Link to route.
Is it idea possible?
Thanks
John

Hi John,
See whether below post helps you, where I have posted a sample configuration for load balance traffic across two wireless bridge links.
https://supportforums.cisco.com/message/4125800#4125800
I doubted you can configure etherchannel across two wireless bridge links. If you configure two independant bridges & pass same vlans then one end switch ports will be get blocked by STP.
HTH
Rasika
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