Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
No replies? Ive only been using drbd about a year. So far from pro, and probably misguided opinions :p But I've never had any troubles with it regarding data integrity. And on my test servers I do some pretty nasty things to it. In fact the only troubles ive had while using drbd I only proved last night to be the fs and not drbd's fault at all (ocfs2 is currently running dead slow for me). The question is what do you want it for. I think drbd would be a good solution for a network'ed raid backup of your disks. If the system completely dies, or abducted by aliens, you’ve got a backup that is less than a few seconds old (you said protocol A?). I don’t think its suitable as an actual backup of your files. Having reliable backups/etc are worth it even if its just that one time "somebody" (may or may not have been me) has overwritten the wrong file on the customers live copy. Drbd would have gone and happily deleted the file's data like you asked. If you were backing up with rsync its still there in the last backup you did, and the archived backups, and the offsite copies.. etc. So, up to you? Andy.. > -----Original Message----- > From: drbd-user-bounces at lists.linbit.com [mailto:drbd-user- > bounces at lists.linbit.com] On Behalf Of Sally-Anne Edwards > Sent: Wednesday, 8 April 2009 5:29 PM > To: drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] drbd or rsync? > > > However, how would this compare to using rsync? Which will be more > > efficient and safer? > > > > No responses so far it seems... > > This thread is the top response in Google: > > http://forums.novell.com/novell-product-support-forums/suse-linux- > enterprise-server-sles/sles-configure-administer/368438-rsync-vs- > drbd.html > > The second response gives the conclusion `At some point drdb will > leave you working a very long weekend' - is it really that far from > production quality? > > I don't have a team of UNIX engineers to support it 24x7 - I want > something that just runs, and doesn't disrupt my weekends. If the > data centre blows up on the weekend, I just want to know that the data > is safely stored elsewhere. The risk of downtime is manageable and HA > is not strictly required. > > Is drbd something that needs to be constantly watched and maintained, > or will it just run by itself? > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > drbd-user at lists.linbit.com > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user