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- From: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM (Brent Callaghan)
- Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
- Subject: Re: Distributed NFS
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 19:16:42 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Lines: 23
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <lk190qINNrn4@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <C010oy.7tK@csfb1.fir.fbc.com>
- Reply-To: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM
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- In article 7tK@csfb1.fir.fbc.com, jswanson@csfb1.fir.fbc.com (James Swanson) writes:
- >I am looking for a solution to provide a backup NFS server that is located
- >away from the primary server. This precludes the use of disk sharing across
- >CPU's or disk-mirroring.
- >
- >I have implimented a solution that involves periodical copying of updated
- >file systems from the primary to the backup system. The problem is trying
- >to achieve up-to-the-moment concurrency between the primary and backup.
- >
- >I am considering modifying a version of NFSD or BIOD that would either forward
- >all file updates to the replicate server or send the update to more than one
- >server from the client.
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- There's already a product available that does this called the Isis Reliable Network File System
- from Isis Distributed Systems Inc. Their mail address is ids@isis.com.
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