[DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question

2012-02-17 Thread Brian O Mahony
Hey folks I am quite new to DRBD, and just had two quick questions, if someone could help it would be great. #1 Is there a downloadable version of the documentation. I don't get very much time to read, so was planning on reading it all offline #2 One of the scenarios that I was thinking of

Re: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question

2012-02-17 Thread Jake Smith
- Original Message - > From: "Brian O Mahony" > To: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:19:00 AM > Subject: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question > Hey folks > I am quite new to DRBD, and just had two qui

Re: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question

2012-02-17 Thread Digimer
On 02/17/2012 08:19 AM, Brian O Mahony wrote: > Hey folks > > I have a server with about 500GB of data on its own filesystem. > Currently, nightly, we lock this data, use tar to copy it it another > volume, unlock it, then use gzip on the copy to compress, and then copy > this to a second server f

Re: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question

2012-02-17 Thread Maurits van de Lande
ists.linbit.com> Onderwerp: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question Hey folks I am quite new to DRBD, and just had two quick questions, if someone could help it would be great. #1 Is there a downloadable version of the documentation. I don't get very much time

Re: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question

2012-02-17 Thread Brian O Mahony
012 15:20 To: Brian O Mahony Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question On 02/17/2012 08:19 AM, Brian O Mahony wrote: > Hey folks > > I have a server with about 500GB of data on its own filesystem. > Currently, nightly, we l

Re: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question

2012-02-17 Thread Jake Smith
- Original Message - > From: "Brian O Mahony" > To: "Digimer" > Cc: drbd-user@lists.linbit.com > Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 11:42:46 AM > Subject: Re: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question > > (Apologies for top

Re: [DRBD-user] Documentation download & another DRBD question

2012-02-17 Thread Digimer
On 02/17/2012 11:42 AM, Brian O Mahony wrote: > (Apologies for top posting - working off a different laptop as I broke mine > this morning, and outlook is a pain) > > Jake/Maurits/Digimer, Thanks for the replies. > > Jake/Digimer: >> What it sounds like you need is LVM's snapshotting capability.