Hey Dan, dan wrote: > AOE is quite simple.
:-o ... wait, not THAT simple ... simple is something like: throw in coin here -> get a beer :-) I just think that I don't fully understand the concept of AOE and how I can apply your setup in order to back our server to a 3rd harddrive that is NOT in the same room like our server. As far as I understand your idea, I would setup an other-machine that will have one harddrive/parition configured as AOE. BackupPC-Server -> network -> other-machine -> AOE-Disk have I understand this right - since we have lots of spare machines available there wouldn't be a problem setting up another one. BUT I don't get how the backuppc-server "knows" where the AOE disk is? sounds like magic. If it's not to offtopic I would like to ask if you can add some more newbie-friendly information how this is working, maybe using the names backuppc-server (that wants to add the AOE-device to its RAID) and aoeserver (that has the real drive built in). thanks a lot - I'm looking forward to make some testing - Kurt dan wrote: > [...] on ubuntu you can build a target like this > > have a spare drive/partition/lvm! > sudo apt-get install vblade > vblade 0 0 eth0 /dev/sdc > > thats it! now you are exporting a device on shelf 0, slot 0 (vblade 0 0) > > on another machine > sudo apt-get install aoetools > modprobe aoe > > you should now see /dev/etherd/e0.0 (this is the shelf 0, slot 0 drive > from the other machine) > > done! > > a 'client' can see any aoe device on the network, without even having an > IP address. IP is not used at all on aoe. > > now on the 'client' machine, you can > "mkfs.ext3 /dev/etherd/e0.0 && mkdir /mnt/e0.0 && mount /dev/etherd/e0.0 > /mnt/e0.0" > > or better yet, add it to your raid array with mdadm. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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/
