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.
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Robert Treat
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