Re: is software raid across two networked machines possible ?

[bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)]

Raghavendra Bhat <ragu@vsnl.com> [2002-11-29 15:35:13 +0530]:
> 
> I have  two PCs connected  having IPs 192.168.1.2 and  192.168.1.3, in
> one machine I am having an 80 GB HDD and the other 20 GB.  My critical
> application software is  running in the 20 GB HDD  machine.  I want to
> mirror this  across the network  on to the  machine having this  80 GB
> HDD.  The question is, can I have some sort of a software raid thingie
> across a network ?

Your best methodology is probably rsync and cron.

  rsync -av ./important-dirs othermachine:/mnt/a/important-dirs

  apt-cache show rsync
  apt-get install rsync

Bob

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