On Mar 11, 2009, at 6:14, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:13 AM, River Tarnell
<river(a)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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