Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Tyler Seaton wrote: [...] > At any rate. We dodged a bullet this time and while we did have quite a > scare, I still believe DRBD has a place in our infrastructure. > > Please any additional comments and or insights are welcome. >From the level of 'freak out' you communicated during this, I am inferring you don't have good backups that you could quickly restore operations from. You should have good onsite and offsite backups regardless of DRBD or any other 'High Availability/Redundancy' technology. HA != backups. Fix that before you do anything else. A couple of inexpensive boxes filled with 8x750GB drives in a RAID5 or RAID6 with rsync over ssh backups and database replication slaves on them will do wonders for both your peace of mind and for your business continuity plans. Because Bad Things (tm) _always_ happen to servers soon or later. -- Benjamin Franz Before you get too proud of how fast you are making progress, be sure it is in the correct direction.