[Samba] Backup file server

Jesse Becker jbecker at fryed.net
Thu Jul 18 08:43:02 GMT 2002


On 15 Jul 2002, Bradley W. Langhorst wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-07-13 at 18:32, Sanjiv Bawa wrote:
> > I will look into this option...
> > 
> > Is there a lower cost way to do this by basically mirroring the files across
> > two servers, maybe even at a file server level?
> look into a distributed filesystem like coda or afs
> 
> I've never tried this but it "should" work

There's something called a "network block device" which is supported by 
Linux.  I've not used it (or things like Coda or AFS), but it might be 
worth looking at.  http://www.it.uc3m.es/~ptb/nbd/

--Jesse





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