On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 11:04 -0400, Todd Denniston wrote: > You speak of transactions in a way that makes me think you are dealing with > databases. > If this is the case, then I suggest you take a few searches over to the drbd > archives** and look for > database issues, IIRC in some cases you are better off (speed and admin > understanding/sanity) > letting the database's built in replication handle the server to server > database transactional sync > than to trust a file system or even drbd to do it, because the db engine > can/will make sure the > backup db server ALSO has the data before reporting the transaction done. > Not saying that having the DB on top of gluster or DRBD too would be bad, > just suggesting that you > may want to have the DB backed by something that fully understands the > transactions. --- Nice analogy have you ever done this? Have you done this with separate Read Write DBs? How about streaming to a file (constant backup). The OP is talking about virtual machine images....
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