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["Greg Freemyer" <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/6/07, David Mayr <d.mayr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm looking for some free software that will allow me to have a real time
> > mirror (one way) from one machine to another.  Rsync is not an
> > acceptable solution.
>
> If you want real realtime, consider using a network-raid system as DRDB
> (http://www.drbd.org/) or maybe md on top of nbd (network block device).
>
> Some more possibilities listed at http://www.topology.org/linux/raid.html
> unter the header "Network Raid".
>
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> David Mayr
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Assuming your looking for a block level mirroring, I would say drdb is
the suse preferred method and it is the way officially supported in
SLES AIUI.

A lot of people use drdb in conjunction with LinuxHA (heartbeat).
That should also be officially supported in SLES.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century
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