Another option is a simple raid1 mirror. Make one of the members a removable drive and then you can swap it out and send the drive offsite on a regular basis. If you make it a 3-member raid, you will still have redundancy in the raid while it is rebuilding.
Bowie On 12/14/2015 2:53 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > thanks to both :) > DRDB sounds interesting :) > > >> ----Messaggio originale---- >> Da: [email protected] >> Data: 14/12/2015 15.45 >> A: <[email protected]> >> Ogg: Re: [BackupPC-users] R: Re: Storage replica >> >> Hi, >> >> sorry, using rsync for this purpose is absolutely not recommended! >> >> As always, it depends on what you want to get. If you do not mind having >> old data as long as you have it, it might be fine with rsync running >> once a month. You have a pool of 2.5TB- on my pool of 1.4TB I aborted >> rsync after 2days! So you might need 3days or more for a ful rsync run. >> I doubt you want it this way! >> >> There is no easy ways to have them always in sync. All file level >> methods are supposed to take ages because of the hardlinks. So you might >> want to use block based duplication. >> One possibility is DRBD (which I do here). It is RAID1 through network. >> If you do not want the remote node slow down local file access you might >> think of a periodic disconnect and reconnect. Besides of this it appears >> to be rock stable and reliable. >> Another possibility are of course distributed file systems. But as you >> do not need write access on remote as long as primary is alive it might >> be overkill. >> Last suggestion is ZFS which I do not know at all. But it appears to >> have some functionality. Try it. >> >> I would say use DRBD ;) And definetly forget about rsync! >> >> Greeting >> >> Christian >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> BackupPC-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users >> Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net >> Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net > Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
