[Lustre-discuss] Alternative to DRBD

Daire Byrne Daire.Byrne at framestore.com
Tue Jul 21 01:02:44 PDT 2009


----- "Andreas Dilger" <adilger at sun.com> wrote:
> > 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.

We are currently using e2scan and distributed rsyncs across the compute farm to do the same thing with Lustre v1.6/1.8 to mirror our main filesystem to a backup every night.

Daire



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