On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 10:33:34 +0100, Michael Gasch wrote: > hi, > > well, i was also wondering how to build up a very redundant solution for > my samba installations > > at the moment i'm using rsync twice a day to sync about 2TB amount of > data between two hardware raids (both raid5 with 2 hot spare) > > advantage: if filesystem is corrupt on one raid, the other raid is > normaly not affected > > disadvantage: because analyzing data to sync by rsync takes time it's > senseless to sync every our so you have no realtime backup (only 12h before) > > how do you avoid this filesystem issue with drbd? doing rsync every > night seperatly? i don't know of statistics about filesystem damages > > cheerz
DRBD would not help this problem. As you say the filesystem corruption would immediately be duplicated to the alternate server. OTOH a good journelled filesystem combined with dual-power supplies and dual ups's should have a very high relaibility rate. EXT3 seems to get mentioned as the most reliable linux filesystem, so go with that if reliability is your top concern. Greg -- Greg Freemyer -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba