On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)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. ;)