>
> I also haven't investigated yet if drbd devices can be 'grown' ... pause
> replication, lvextend slave and master, xfs_grow the master, and resume
> replication? or is that too easy and it won't work...
>
They can be grown (I used it for static image store on the Sky
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On 2013-02-26, John R Pierce wrote:
>
> the use case is more like, if the primary backup server fails, I'd like
> to have the secondary backup server running within a few hours of
> futzing with the existing backups available for recovery.
If you're doing something rsync-like, and if your buil
On 2/26/2013 4:17 PM, Steve Thompson wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, John R Pierce wrote:
>
>> >the initial sync of the 8TB starting volumes is looking to be a 460 hour
>> >affair.
> Something wrong here. That's only 5 MB/sec; I did an initial sync of a
> 10TB volume in less than a day (dual bonded g
On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, John R Pierce wrote:
> the initial sync of the 8TB starting volumes is looking to be a 460 hour
> affair.
Something wrong here. That's only 5 MB/sec; I did an initial sync of a
10TB volume in less than a day (dual bonded gigabits, dedicated).
Steve
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On 2/26/2013 3:36 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> That should work, but what happens if they ever get out of sync? How
> long will it take drbd to catch up with something that size?
the initial sync of the 8TB starting volumes is looking to be a 460 hour
affair. yeouch. I might have to rethink th
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:26 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
>
> don't have anywhere near that sort of uptime requirements, but when data
> starts spiralling out into the multi-terabytes with billions of file
> links, rsync is painfully slow.
Yes, the one problem with backuppc is that the number of hard
On 2/26/2013 3:03 PM, Patrick Flaherty wrote:
> That being said, if you have a requirement that your backup solution
> is up five nines, then yeah, use drbd / pacemaker, it's just not a use
> case I see very often.
don't have anywhere near that sort of uptime requirements, but when data
starts sp
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 4:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> hey, I have an application for drbd replication between a pair of EL6
> servers, and I just realized that drbd is no longer built in.
>
> googling found me this blog on doing it using ElRepo distributions...
> http://www.broexperts.com/2012/0
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:44 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
> hey, I have an application for drbd replication between a pair of EL6
> servers, and I just realized that drbd is no longer built in.
>
> googling found me this blog on doing it using ElRepo distributions...
> http://www.broexperts.com/2012/0
hey, I have an application for drbd replication between a pair of EL6
servers, and I just realized that drbd is no longer built in.
googling found me this blog on doing it using ElRepo distributions...
http://www.broexperts.com/2012/06/how-to-install-drbd-on-centos-6-2/
is that still best pract
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