Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> 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. Firstly, I notice a lot of people's replies are coming to me and not the entire list - maybe the list configuration needs to be tweaked - thanks to those who replied I do understand that drbd is not backup. In my situation, I don't own the servers in the data centre. I have a good tape drive in another location. So I need to replicate before I can backup. Does this seem unreasonable, whether it is done with drbd or rsync? Getting a tape drive in the data centre would add a lot of cost, and would mean that other people are handling the tapes (I know they can be encrypted, but that's more effort too)