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 -- Erik Anderson http://andersonfam.org