syncing up 2 servers...just like that!

rado rado at rivers-bend.com
Fri Mar 18 21:02:21 UTC 2005


> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 13:08, rado wrote:
> > > There are a couple of ways to sync live over a network.  One is an nbd
> > > or enbd device used along with md software RAID, another is DRBD which
> > > does that and a little more.  This project puts the pieces together:
> > > http://www.linuxha.net/index.pl
> > > 
> > > 
> > > RAID???? hummmm gotta stay away from hardware specific tho....interesting!!!
> > saving this msg...dunno DRBD and wanna see what that's about as well
> > thx les!
> 
> Linux software RAID has nothing hardware specific.  You create md
> (multi-disk) devices out of existing hardware partitions.  The nbd
> or enbd drivers connect to partitions on a remote machine over the
> network and RAID1 mirroring can work over them as though they were
> local partitions.

my concerns: I don't want hardware specific files of Box A being raided
to box B. Both boxes have RAID1 arrays as they sit right now.
love dat raid!
jr
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