tmassey AT obscorp DOT com wrote:

> Stephen Joyce <stephen AT physics.unc DOT edu> wrote on 12/29/2008 01:05:44  
> PM:
>
>> I assume you're most worried about your server going tango uniform  
>> (in a
>
>> fire, simultaneous disk failure, etc), and not "rm -rf *". Correct?
>>
>> Has anyone successfully used BackupPC on a DRBD (http://www.drbd.org)
>> active/passive, or even active/active, cluster? If so, what can you
> report?
>
> The biggest problem with this is that you're most likely looking for
> off-site replication:  a fire/tornado/theft would affect both  
> members of
> the cluster.  And doing DRDB over a slow connection (i.e. WAN) is  
> going to
> *seriously* slow down your backups...
>
> That's why so *very* many of us have asked these same questions so  
> *many*
> times.  What I think many of us (read:  ME!) would like is a way to
> replicate a backup from one server to another without hammering the  
> host
> that needs to be backed up twice.  After all, the fact that it needs  
> to be
> backed up means that it does real, valuable work;  whereas the backup
> servers spend most of their time idle, just *begging* to replicate  
> data
> somewhere else...  :)
>
> Tim Massey
>
>

I second this. I have a new system I am rolling out that needs to be  
"hands off" due to physical restrictions to the server. And this is my  
big hesitation (remote replication of my backuppc). 

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