On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:05 PM, gregwm <tclugl at whitleymott.net> wrote:
> raid provides some protection against disc failure, but nada for any other
> component.  i'm thinking of experimenting with drbd/ha for that next level
> of protection.  before i start throwing my time at it, any
> recommendations/comments?  is it worthy/sensible or what else..?

As Florin said DRBD is great. Like RAID, though, it offers no
protection from either "rm -rf /" type of mistakes, nor protection
from filesystem corruption. As such, I'd recommend making sure that
you have sound backup/restore procedures in place before spending time
on drbd.

-Erik


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Erik Anderson
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