Joe Krahn wrote: > I did some searching and found that several people have expressed > interest in a block-device feature for rsync, but nothing has come of it > yet. I also found DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device), which > probably does exactly what you want. > I just found this interesting Linux Magazine article on Network Block Devices, could possibly be relevant (note: this PDF only worked for me with Acrobat, not sure why Document Viewer on Ubuntu Gutsy couldn't make sense of it). DNBD looks interesting, but haven't read all the details, might be "read mostly".
http://w3.linux-magazine.com/issue/70/Network_Block_Devices.pdf Other thoughts: use XFS and use xfs_copy to "clone" the filesystem to a 2nd device RAID-1 over ATA over Ethernet (AoE) cluster filesystem like GFS / Lustre / Gluster / ZFS Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
