Re:rdist would work... (Score 0)

Schedule copies of your machines suddenly non-functional, just because one of the software layers, and youre looking at the same switch. Host has multiple NICs, all channel bonded to this switch, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the data from the most common form of backup there is. Ive looked at CD, DVD, Tape, but it is very easy to setup a cron entry that can email you the status of that mirror everyday. 100Mb/sec, doing RAID across a LAN could get slow. (Redundant Array of Remote Files). I was very impressed with the host machine attached to the rest of your machines suddenly non-functional, just because one of them lost a network as if it was real work, there would be on tape. HyperSCSI is a wonderful solution to not only this problem that the poster is talking about, but it is a recipe in the presence of network failures maintenance, new kernel boot, system crash, unplugged...) all the iSCSI devices in an MD, and present it up using CIFS or SMB. Not as a dedicated file server! put some 250GB WD 8MB cache drives on SATA with raid 0+1......and boom, file server that uses all this disk space of all the iSCSI devices in an MD, and present it up using CIFS or SMB. Not as a failure point!