Hard disk high avalibity

[Dan Sheffner]

I have used rsync with cron.  Since you can copy only the data that has
changed you can run this often.  I have mine set as */5 * * * *

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Peter Clapham <pc7 at sanger.ac.uk> wrote:

>
>  Looks like gsync could do this.
>>
>> http://open.gandi.net/
>>
>>
>> Cheers, /N
>>
>>
> The issue with various syncs are that you need to be there to both perform
> the switch over following a failure and you also need to manually take care
> that split brain is avoided. This is less of an issue with a hard fail but a
> soft fail can be more problematic.
>
> Using DRBD is a standard config with (the rightly corrected) pacemaker.
> This setup will take care of soft fails and auto failover for you if you
> configure it to use a quorum device. All details are available in the
> initial link
>
> Good luck
>
> Pete
>
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