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[Veritas-bu] Question in regards to high availability of the catalog.

2006-03-22 07:46:02
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question in regards to high availability of the catalog.
From: michael AT michaelbarrow DOT name (Michael L. Barrow)
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:46:02 -0800
Justin Piszcz wrote:
> Where the two netapps are synced via their own protocol for replication?
> Has anyone done this or similar methods of catalog replication across
> multiple sites?

This was discussed on the list not too long ago.

A simpler (and cheaper) solution than using disk-replication is to use 
rsync on a snapshot of the primary master server to copy changed files 
over to the secondary master server. You can just rsync without the 
snapshot, however the copy that goes to the secondary server will not be 
self-consistent.

In summary:
1) make a snapshot using the appropriate OS command (e.g., lvcreate on 
Linux, fssnap on Solaris)

2) rsync -a --delete /openv secondary-master:/openv




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