On Mar 11, 2009, at 6:14, Aryeh Gregor Simetrical+wikilist@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:13 AM, River Tarnell river@loreley.flyingparchment.org.uk wrote:
... however, if we had enough money to support the toolserver properly, i think it would be perfectly reliable as a backup.
It wouldn't protect against an accidental DELETE FROM page;, though, would it? Slaves of any kind aren't great backups unless they're deliberately lagged by a significant interval.
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.
-- brion
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