Andy Shellam wrote:
>Robin,
>
>On my part it's simply the fact that I currently have two servers in
>different geographical locations - and cost of new hardware is a huge issue.
>
>
>I have, however, recently developed an interest in rsync but I'm unsure as
>to how PG on the standby server would handle a complete rsync'd data
>directory.
>
>Andy
>
>
Andy - agreed that DRBD is not appropriate for WAN-type environments (at
least not unless the database is mostly read-only).
There has just recently been a fairly extensive discussion on this list
about how best to replicate the WAL files between two machines - I have
no direct experience of this myself so will not comment on whether or
not rsync is suitable.
Cheers,
Robin