DRBD

Chip Marshall chip at 2bithacker.net
Tue Jun 24 12:19:46 EDT 2008


On June 24, 2008, Mark Komarinski sent me the following:
> Anyway, DRBD is self-contained and is automatic (if the remote system
> disappears, it'll automatically resync when it reappears). You can
> encrypt the stream, you can enforce how fast it syncs, and setup is
> pretty easy.

Is this a Linux only project, or is it portable to other operating
systems?

I'm currently working on a project that involves mirroring some storage
accross machines, the current thinking to do a UFS snapshot and rsync.
DRBD sounds like a much better solution, but all my stuff is FreeBSD.

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