syncing up 2 servers...just like that!

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 13:08, rado wrote:
> > There are a couple of ways to sync live over a network.  One is an nbd
> > or enbd device used along with md software RAID, another is DRBD which
> > does that and a little more.  This project puts the pieces together:
> > http://www.linuxha.net/index.pl
> > 
> > 
> > RAID???? hummmm gotta stay away from hardware specific tho....interesting!!!
> saving this msg...dunno DRBD and wanna see what that's about as well
> thx les!

Linux software RAID has nothing hardware specific.  You create md
(multi-disk) devices out of existing hardware partitions.  The nbd
or enbd drivers connect to partitions on a remote machine over the
network and RAID1 mirroring can work over them as though they were
local partitions.

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com