Hi,
Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Constantin Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>> Yes, we're both aware of this. In this particular situation, the customer
>> would restart his backup job (and thus the client application) in case
>> the
>> server dies.
>
> So it is ok for this customer if their backup becomes silently corrupted
> and the backup software continues running? Consider that some of the
> backup files may have missing or corrupted data in the middle. Your
> customer is quite dedicated in that he will monitor the situation very
> well and remember to reboot the backup system, correct any corrupted
> files, and restart the backup software whenever the server panics and
> reboots.
This is what the customer told me. He uses rsync and he is ok with restarting
the rsync whenever the NFS server restarts.
> A properly built server should be able to handle NFS writes at gigabit
> wire-speed.
I'm advocating for a properly built system, believe me :).
Cheers,
Constantin
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