NBD - was Re: [plug] date and time

[Craig Ringer]

>> soon have 2 drives in that box fail at the same time. At least I keep
>> good backups - NBD + DDS4 = great whole-partition system images for
>> quick server rebuilds.
> 
> Errr... NBD?   As in Network Block Device?

Yeah. Very nice indeed...

craig at bucket: nbd-server /dev/hda1 15001
craig at albert: nbd-client 10.0.0.4 15001 dev/nbd/1
craig at albert: cp /dev/nbd/1 /dev/st0

rather nicer than piping through an ssh tunnel (which is more than a tad 
slow...) and allows you to use something that'll write to character 
devices like tapes happily.

:-)