On 2018-06-05 04:23 AM, Roland Kammerer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2018 at 01:07:48PM +0800, 唐宇奕 wrote:
>> Thanks for reply, my situation is we want to backup a git server
>> repository, is drbd enough?
> 
> Hm, DRBD is not really a "backup solution", it perfectly replicates your
> mistakes live and in colors... But let's not be picky about wording.
> 
> Putting my DRBD hat off, just pushing to a second git remote
> (manually/automatically) would work as well. Git obviously is good in
> being distributed...
> 
> Regards, rck

Agreed; DRBD is a replication technology meant to protect against
hardware faults. Think of it like RAID level 1, but for a full machine.
You wouldn't use RAID 1 for backups. So DRBD is very useful, but it
scratches a different itch.


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