[DRBD-user] drbd solution for distant sites ? (4MB line)

Laurent CARON lcaron at unix-scripts.info
Thu Feb 23 18:49:20 CET 2006

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


Romain BOTTAN a écrit :
> Hello,
> I know drbd for just one month,
> I've set up cluster solutions with heartbeat and drbd, all works well 
> with a gigabit link to play with file sync.
> 
> Now they want to put some distance between the two nodes -- just 700 Kms :)
> the link will be a vpn connection up to 2 or 4 MB :(
> I've made some computes and as there is some 400 GB to synchronize, it 
> takes minimum 18 days to make the first sync if we stay in 2MB :(

You could probably perform the first sync locally.

> After this period I expect that synchronization would ask for less 
> resources... but is DRBD capable to function with such a link ?
> 
> I would know if DRBD is a good solution for my problem or we need to use 
> another way to make a common file server synchronized for our two sites.
> 
> thank you for your answers, but first, thank you for the program, it 
> works perfectly on short-linked nodes ;)
> 
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