30 Oct
2013
30 Oct
'13
11:15 p.m.
On 10/25/2013 11:14 AM, Chuck Munro wrote:
To keep the two servers in sync I use 'lsyncd' which is essentially a front-end for rsync that cuts down thrashing and overhead dramatically by excluding the full filesystem scan and using inotify to figure out what to sync. This allows almost-real-time syncing of the backup machine. (BTW, you need to crank the resources for inotify waaaaay up for large filesystems with a couple million files.)
Playing with lsyncd now, thanks for the tip!
One qeustion though: why did you opt to use lsyncd rather than using ZFS snapshots/send/receive?
Thanks,
Ben