Asynchronous replication technology is the latest approach to providing fault tolerance for server and network storage. Unlike the replication technologies that preceded it, asynchronous technology ...

In a world that appears to be governed by Murphy's Laws, anything can go wrong. Accidents ranging from machine crashes, media failures, operator errors and random data corruption to such catastrophes ...

Backups, snapshots, cloning and replication are all valuable ways of protecting the organisation’s data. In this article, we’ll look at replication, in particular between storage arrays. Key to this ...

Synchronous vs asynchronous replication: How do they differ with regard to the order of events during data writes? When comparing synchronous vs asynchronous replication, let’s take a scenario where a ...

In mid-August, the first commercially available ZFS cloud replication target became available at rsync.net. Who cares, right? As the service itself states, “If you’re not sure what this means, our ...

I'm planning on setting up a test iSCSI export on my NAS which will be used by a KVM virtualisation host to store all guest volumes and data. My NAS box is a self-build running CentOS and this is ...