rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots]

Svein Halvor Halvorsen svein-freebsd-questions at theloosingend.net
Tue Aug 30 07:39:16 GMT 2005


* Bob Johnson [2005-08-29 12:44 -0400]
>  Use a ggated(8) + ggatec(8) pair to establish a remote volume that
>  looks local, then use gmirror to make it a mirror of the local drive.
>  
>  The big gotcha is that ggated/c only moves i/o requests and data via
>  the net, it doesn't move ioctls, so some things just won't work
>  remotely.  Or at least, that's what I've read.


Do you think this is allright for a 4M/640K link?
The upstrem bandwith to the backupserver is 4 Mbps.


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