Chapter 7. High Availability with Block Level Replication
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Introduction
- Installing DRBD on two Linux servers
- Manually moving services within a DRBD Cluster
- Using heartbeat for automatic failover
Introduction
Block level replication allows you to keep a highly-available database by replicating data at the hard drive (block) level between two machines. In other words, in two machines, every time a write is made by the kernel on the main server, it is sent to server 2 so as to be written to its disk.
The leading open source software for block level replication is DRBD. DRBD stands for Distributed Replicated Block Device and describes itself as a "software-based, shared-nothing, replicated storage solution mirroring the content ...
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