Hi! After having wrestled with rsync and several patches I found a solution to synchronize block devices: BDsync. Bdsync can be used to synchronize block devices over a network. It generates a "binary diff" in an efficient way by comparing MD5 checksums of 32k blocks of block devices. This binary diff can be applied to "destination" after which the local blockdevices are synchronized. bdsync was built to do the only thing rsync isn't able to do: synchronize block devices. But I would actually like rsync or another tool te replace bdsync ASAP. Interrested people can download the sources from: http://bdsync.rolf-fokkens.nl/ Rolf -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/attachments/20120627/e4af4073/attachment.html>
On 06/27/2012 06:51:29 AM, Rolf Fokkens wrote:> After having wrestled with rsync and several patches I found a > solution to > synchronize block devices: BDsync. > > Bdsync can be used to synchronize block devices over a network. It > generates > a "binary diff" in an efficient way by comparing MD5 checksums of > 32k > blocks of block devices. This binary diff can be applied to > "destination" > after which the local blockdevices are synchronized.> > Interrested people can download the sources from: > http://bdsync.rolf-fokkens.nl/I'm curious. Why would use use bdsync instead of drdb? Karl <kop at meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein