On 07/10 08:22 , Christian Völker wrote:
> So what I did was to set up a physical small sized box (old desktop
> should work). No RAID involved. I installed there distributed remote
> block device (drbd- use Google). Same on backuppc machine. So I have a
> physical separated RAID1 available- just through network. Both drbd
> devices are using LVM volumes as backing devices so I can enlarge/
> shrink at will. The external server addditionaly uses the snaprotate.pl
> script to create 4 snapshots of the drbd device at weekly rate.

So you're running LVM and DRBD on the ESX guest machine?
Isn't that a notable performance hit? Especially keeping 4 snapshots
simultaneously?

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Carl Soderstrom
Systems Administrator
Real-Time Enterprises
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