[DRBD-user] DRBD Dual Primary + GFS2 for redundant KVM hosts

Gionatan Danti g.danti at assyoma.it
Mon Aug 28 14:56:27 CEST 2017

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


On 28/08/2017 14:13, Yannis Milios wrote:
>     I use lvm-based block device on critical installation, actually.
>     However, backing up block devices is an hassle compared to regular
>     files: you basically need to use ddrescue or, even worse, plain dd.
>     Especially with the latter, you need to be *extremely* careful, as its
>     "alias name" (data-destroyer) is here for a reason.
> 
> 
> I use proxmox which has implemented vzdump for backing up raw devices. 
> No issues so far and no need to use dd.
> 
> https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/VZDump
> 
> In addition to that, ZFS snapshots can be used as a quick point in time 
> backup.
> 
> Yannis

Fair enought. I'll surely try it.
Thanks.

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