[Lustre-discuss] Alternative to DRBD

[Andreas Dilger]

On Jul 20, 2009  23:45 -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 23:41 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
> > Other than DRBD and Hot standby are there any other alternatives? We
> > want to have a redundant copy of our data and was wondering if rsync
> > is the only way to accomplish this.
> 
> Until the replication feature is available, rsync (or a suitable
> replacement) is about the only way to have an independent, redundant
> copy of your data.

In the 2.0 release there will be an efficient mechanism (Changelogs)
along with an rsync replacement to incrementally sync a Lustre filesystem
to another filesystem.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger
Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group
Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc.