Re: storage server fail-over

[Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>]

On 7/13/2012 2:26 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> i have a storage server (samba) and now there is a requirement from my
> management that i should provide a centralized document storage server
> where people can store their working document. (so this means another
> layer of responsibility :*(, (never mind)).
> 
> i already have raid 1 implemented on SAMBA Server and using it as a
> Data backup and archiving, so what if machine dies?
> so my question is do you guys think that the best way of doing this is
> SAMBA or ISCSI or any other network sharing service which also provide
> a good fail-over plan.

http://www.drbd.org/

That's the cheapest method.

-- 
Stan