On Friday 18 January 2008 18:04, Erik Jones wrote: > For our primary, er, main, onsite standby server that's also what we > do. But, this was a co-location to co-location transfer so there was > no NFS mount, it was a direct rsync to the server at the other co- > location. For WAL files, I've already decided to write a WALShipper > utility that will handle shipping WALs to multiple standbys with > verfication, but for the base backup, this is distressing. We do > have the option to do the base backup to a portable USB drive and > then carry it to the second co-lo for now. But, pretty soon we're > going to be surpassing the available limits in portably drive > capacity unless we invest in tape drives. > Are you guys running ZFS yet? If so it's snapshot / cloning capabilities might be the way to go. -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter LAMP :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly