[Lustre-discuss] Alternative to DRBD

[Michael Di Domenico]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Daire Byrne<Daire.Byrne at framestore.com> wrote:
>
> ----- "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.

Is this a script you'd be willing to share?