[DRBD-user] DRBD as a "backup" System

Clive Eisen clive at serendipita.com
Sun Nov 13 00:10:37 CET 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


Diego Julian Remolina wrote:

>
> You should not really use drbd in this case. No offense, but remember 
> the well known phrase: "Keep it simple, stupid"
>
Quite

> Let one machine (system A) be a simple standalone server, then let the 
> second machine (system B) use an ssh key to rsync the data each month. 
> You do not need to turn off the secondary server, just rsync it every 
> month with a cron job. That will accomplish what you want without 
> going into drbd (complicating your life).
>
use rsnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/



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