On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Brion Vibber brion@wikimedia.org wrote:
Quite so. :) Replication is fantastic against outright failure, but by itself doesnt help agaibst daya loss within the system which gets replicated right alobg with it
we're working on ensuring we've got regular snapshots as well, though this isn't up yet. Regular snapshots plus the replication binlogs provide for point-in-time restoration.
Maybe you need to move the DB servers to ZFS on Solaris too. ;)