continuous backup solution for freebsd?
Evren Yurtesen
yurtesen at ispro.net.tr
Tue Oct 7 00:15:24 UTC 2008
Mel wrote:
> I think once you and R1soft step out of the "I need a block level device"
> paradigm, you will see that modifying ggate with a "copy and fall through"
> mode, as well as a mechanism to block writes to the local provider, when the
> remote provider wants to write is the best solution all around and your best
> bet to get support for it.
> Right now, ggate does "intercept and redirect", but the concept of copy and
> fall through is not that far away. Bringing the R1soft devs in contact with
> the FreeBSD geom list and having them browse the sys/geom/ggate sources to
> see how trivial it is to hook into filesystem operations would be the course
> of action I'd recommend.
>
Would it be too much to ask if you can send this information to R1Soft and refer
to the post I linked? I just dont think that I can be an efficient gateway of
information here :)
Thanks,
Evren
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