DRBD

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Tue Jun 24 18:41:49 EDT 2008


> From: Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:25:09 -0400
> Cc: gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org

> On Jun 24, 2008, at 12:19, Chip Marshall wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Have you checked out the port of ZFS to FreeBSD?  Snapshot the  
> filesystem, and zfs send it over your preferred network tool to the  
> other box?
> 

That would backup the entire filesystem.  With rsync and path-level
access, your incremental backup is possible.


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