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.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 14, 2007 9:21 AM, Kevan Benson <
<a href="mailto:kbenson@a-1networks.com">kbenson@a-1networks.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d">
Augie Schwer wrote:<br>> On Dec 13, 2007 10:43 AM, Kevan Benson <<a href="mailto:kbenson@a-1networks.com">kbenson@a-1networks.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> Hmm.<br>>> LVM+Snapshots+rsync from snapshot = poor man's NAS with snapshots?
<br>><br>> The last time I heard you mention LVM and Snapshots you were swearing<br>> and cursing its very existence; what changed?<br><br></div>A few point releases of RHEL/CentOS. That (supposedly) fixed the<br>
problems I was having where it would crash the system when attempting a<br>volume snapshot. Even then, it was always the second or third snapshot<br>on a volume.<br><br>I still haven't revisited it yet to see if it's stable enough for any of
<br>my (or my client's) uses, the whole event kind of soured me on the<br>snapshot issue.<br><br>That said, I'm sure there are other *NIX's with LVM implementations that<br>have working snapshot support, and I figured it was worth mentioning
<br>anyways as a cheap (equivalent) implementation of what Rob suggested.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>--<br><br>-Kevan Benson<br>-A-1 Networks<br><br>_______________________________________________<br></div><div><div></div>
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