NBD - was Re: [plug] date and time

[Bernd Felsche]

On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 05:25:47PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> >>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.
> 
> :-)

That's nice... be nicer if I didn't keep forgetting that it exists.
:-(

Does nbd also encrypt?

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