[wplug] more backing up

Michael Skowvron skowvron at verizon.net
Fri Apr 2 14:43:08 EST 2004


I believe that DRBD is exactly what you are looking for.

  "Drbd is a block device which is designed to build high availability 
clusters. This is done by mirroring a whole block device via (a 
dedicated) network. You could see it as a network raid-1."

http://www.drbd.org/

Michael


John Harrold wrote:
> hey.
> 
> on the topic of backing up, does anyone know of a method for realtime
> mirroring of filesystems across the network? currently i do backups across
> the network using rsync with some shell scripts called from cron. what i
> would like is when i write the file it writes the file to the local disc
> and simultaneously to the disc across the network. 
> 
> does anyone have any expirence with this on linux? of course {F&f}ree is
> always good.
> 
> 
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