>> der Mouse Wrote:
>>
>> I have "live" mirroring of my disks - all disk writes are
>> mirrored over the net in real time to images on a big
>> backup drive on another machine. (Or near-real-time, if
>> the writer is producing data faster than the mirroring can
>> deal with it - the software goes to some lengths to handle
>> that case well.) It doesn't cause load problems in normal
>> use because the network load it imposes is spread out
>> throughout the day, becoming visible only when doing a data
>> transfer over the net to disk from a source that can run
>> the network at least half-wide-open.
Just out of curiousity... Is this done on a file by file basis [i.e. if the
file is changed, the file is copied...], or some other more granular means?
I ask because most of my data operations involve many relatively small
writes to varying sections of very large files.
Thanks for the info...