DRBD

[Tom Buskey]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:41 PM, <VirginSnow at vfemail.net> wrote:

> > 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.
>

I think there are ways to do ZFS replication continuously from what I've
been reading in the OpenSolaris forums.
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