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Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2002 10:00:51 +0200
From: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: RAID backup
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On 2002-10-03T16:59:57,
   Effrem Norwood <enorwood@effrem.com> said:

> With multiple inexpensive large disk arrays from companies like Network
> Appliance (NearStor) and Exstor (T-2120) organizations are asynchronously
> mirroring their data to geographically distant locations to prevent single
> points of failure with their arrays.

Let's just point out that Linux can do that too with drbd.

(I wonder if that will stay a separate module or whether it'll become a EVMS
plugin ;-)


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Br?e <lmb@suse.de>

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