[SoCoSA/discuss] PostgreSQL Replication?

[Rob Clark]

As Kevan pointed out...there is a big price difference in what I suggested
compared to what Kevan has suggested.  It all comes down to how much you're
willing to pay for a service.

On Dec 14, 2007 9:21 AM, Kevan Benson <kbenson at a-1networks.com> wrote:

> Augie Schwer wrote:
> > On Dec 13, 2007 10:43 AM, Kevan Benson <kbenson at a-1networks.com> wrote:
> >> Hmm.
> >> LVM+Snapshots+rsync from snapshot = poor man's NAS with snapshots?
> >
> > The last time I heard you mention LVM and Snapshots you were swearing
> > and cursing its very existence; what changed?
>
> A few point releases of RHEL/CentOS.  That (supposedly) fixed the
> problems I was having where it would crash the system when attempting a
> volume snapshot.  Even then, it was always the second or third snapshot
> on a volume.
>
> I still haven't revisited it yet to see if it's stable enough for any of
> my (or my client's) uses, the whole event kind of soured me on the
> snapshot issue.
>
> That said, I'm sure there are other *NIX's with LVM implementations that
> have working snapshot support, and I figured it was worth mentioning
> anyways as a cheap (equivalent) implementation of what Rob suggested.
>
> --
>
> -Kevan Benson
> -A-1 Networks
>
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Rob Clark
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