[DRBD-user] Just making sure DRBD is the right project for me... ; -)

[Lars Ellenberg]

/ 2005-11-21 10:00:03 +0100
\ Evert Meulie:
> Hi all!
> 
> Current situation: We have 1 fully configured (production) server, and
> one server that does contain a bootable OS & data, but nothing worth
> keeping...
> 
> Now I would like to use DRBD to make these 2 systems completely
> identical to each other, including root & boot partitions. Can DRBD
> help me out here?   8-)

drbd is not intended for root/boot partitions (though it even works with
OpenSSI and root-failover; but that is an other story).
and typically not neccessary: you don't need real-time replication for
(almost) static data. just use rsync, or tar | netcat...

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