From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:01:00 -0700 From: "Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] multiple venti servers In-Reply-To: <8ccc8ba40608300802m6708d056qb314d6fd28ebc4ef@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44F595DD.30202@village.com> <8ccc8ba40608300802m6708d056qb314d6fd28ebc4ef@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: aaf8fe88-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, If I am right, one problem with this approach is it becomes tricky when both venti servers have updates but yet to be sync'ed. And, in particular, when there are identical data backed up (say, I downloaded a CD image in two machines and backed up in these two servers), it leaves two copies. It may be safe but it does leave two copies. Thanks dharani On 8/30/06, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > At urjc we have a single venti server, backed up into another venti server > at a different machine. Each night we copy the changes from one venti to another > using a script. > > Just to say that what geoff suggested works pretty well for us. Of > course, at worst > case, you loose a whole day of work. > > On 8/30/06, Wes Kussmaul wrote: > > geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > > > An alternative might be to run venti/copy from your main venti server > > > to a backup venti server(s) periodically. > > > > > If you made an arrangement with Chris Gladwin at Cleversafe you could > > avoid having to own and manage those dispersed servers. > > > > http://www.cleversafe.com/ > > > > > > >