[DRBD-user] Replication for disaster recovery

Velko veljko3 at gmail.com
Mon Apr 28 13:31:23 CEST 2014

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Hello,

On 2014-Apr-27 21:55, Eliezer Croitoru wrote:
> I have a question which is one of the basics.
> What services would you use on this partition? local? will it be a
> storage node?

It would be web server on local partition.

> Note that rsync is nice but in a situation of split-brain it cannot
> be used logically...
> rsync compares dates and states while you will manually need to
> decide which one of the nodes is in a "better" shape then the other.
> Unless the service has a way to understanding that there is a
> split-brain issue now which is only if the network and application
> works which is not really the situation you would need DRBD for...

Well, I'll make sure to configure everything to avoid split-brain.
Hence, this thread. :) Also, I looked at csync2 and it really looks good
for what I need. 

> So what would you use it? nfs? sambe? ISCSI ? others?

Just regular local partition.




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