>So sine iSCSI is out my next avenue of investigation is clustering filesystems. Overkill much? Stick with something simple, it will serve you better in the end, especially when something fails. K.I.S.S., remember? Just rsync the two boxes already, with or without ssh. That's assuming the data is mostly static (videos). If you have other data as well you might want to use rdiff-backup for that, as it can keep multiple versions. Get some kind of backplane for the disks so you can swap them out without powering down the box. (Not because you can't live with 10min downtime when a disk fails but because you don't want to spin down the *other* disks.) Bonus: If the primary server fails but its disks are fine you can just stick all of them in the backup server temporarily, boot and be up and running almost immediately. Cheers, C. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
