Re: Keeping data on 2 servers in sync !

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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 08:13:58PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> > There is a lot more to handling network file services --
> > especially when it comes to locking and controlling write
> > access -- that web servers don't have to worry about.  ;->
> > 
> I use drbd and heartbeat on a samba domain controller that has
> failover ... BUT, you can't use both machines at the same time.

Actually, you can't. I did that twice for telco datacenters. It is tricky
as hell, but it is possible. I would not recomend it to first timers
on drbd, tho.

> AND, it takes a GiB connector to keep the files in sync ... trying to do
> it via a WAN connection would, I think, be fairly impossible.

Yes, WAN would be not good for it.


- -- 
Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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