Benjamin Smith wrote:

On Wednesday 17 January 2007 04:41, Karanbir Singh wrote:

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Fajar Priyanto wrote:

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I have a task on setting up a cluster of 2 servers for providing ftp service. We use RH's Cluster suite. However the cluster setup is lack of shared network storage, so the /var/ftp/pub is mounted on each server. The cluster is set

So, are we on the right direction? Or is there any better way? Thank you very much,

have you considered using drbd ?

Well, I was going to suggest using RAID1 with one of the partitions being a network block device, but this looks even better!

Rsync is great for period backups (not more than once per day or so)

I run rsync every hour on multi-terrabyte systems with no problems. The NASes do have a private GB network to push the data through, so the user network doesn't see the network traffic generated by rsync. I can have anywhere from just a couple hundred megs, to 100 gigs of data change inside of an hour.

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It's great, though, for Distaster Recovery off-site backups. See http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy for an example I cooked up some time back.

I'll have to read this. I wrote my configuration up on how to use rsync for hourly, daily and weekly backups here: http://marks-tech-pages.blogspot.com

Rsync really shines, I've totally abandoned backing up to tape. It's nice to have restores run at network speeds.

Thanks!

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