We use DRBD to sync LVM volumes. so i don't any problem to sync a partition. just point to the block device which you like to sync, but make sure that al the R/W are done to the DRBD device and not directly to the partition it self.
-- Rabin On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:15 PM, Dan Craciun <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have 2 servers running about 10 OpenVZ containers and 4 KVM VMs, using > Proxmox as a frontend. > > Both servers have 1TB hdds, mirrored using zfs. > > I'm considering adding high availability to this setup. > > My idea: configure a third server as a backup and use DRBD to mirror the > data from both servers over the network. > > Most guides I've seen on the Internet assume you're going to use full > disks for DRBD mirrors. > > In this case, I would create a partition on each server (200-300 GB) and > use DRBD to constantly mirror data on the third server. > > Is this setup possible? The third server would have 2 different DRBD > partitions. > > What do you recommend running on top of the DRDB partitions? ext4? > > Thank you. > > Best regards, > Dan > _______________________________________________ > drbd-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linbit.com/mailman/listinfo/drbd-user >
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