On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 09:03:24 -0700, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales
<jwales(a)wikia.com> wrote:
3. We are widely beloved ... it seems likely that if we pay
the cost of a machine, they would be happy to host on a permanent
basis a slave db machine which we could keep synced to have a constant
realtime backup.
At some point soon, we will be backing up many terabytes of archives
and historical data. Would it make sense to have an offsite location
dedicated to preserving these backups and regular snapshots of the db,
in case there is ever data corruption which goes unnoticed and is replicated
to all active slaves/mirrors?
That location could also maintain a synced mirror of the current projects
and key filesystem content, along with a few machines available for
configuration as temporary web and db servers, in case something terrible
happened at the colo facility.
+sj+