On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:33:05AM -0600, mortonda AT dgrmm DOT net wrote:
 
> > 1) AoE (ATA over Ethernet) - you could add a drive to your BackupPC
> 
> > 2) (Soft?)RAID1 with at least 3 drives. I've used this and I'm currently
> 
> 1 + 2 = 4)  RAID over the network.  See http://www.drbd.org/

Has anybody tested this in production? I wouldn't add some network
latency to the filesystem BackupPC is running on since it's VERY I/O
intensive. I've never used/tested DRDB though, just saw it on a
customer's server where speed isn't main priority.

Would you run a database on DRDB?

Bye,

Tino.

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