On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Tobias Stroh <u...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> I think it is a matter of weighting the ease of setting it up vs. the
> power needed.
>
> And if you are certain, that you will never have more then one backuppc
> server using one database, you might as well get rid of the network
> overhead.
But what is wrong with the hardlink model in that case? Throw a disk
with fast seeks at it or one of those hybrid SSD models if you just
need a tiny bit more speed. And a lot of RAM, of course. Then
again, who has problems with network overhead these days?
> For simple queries it might even be faster than mysql and for more
> complicated ones PostgreSQL would be better, I think. Note that there
> are recent developements: The new WAL mode makes writes more efficient,
> and you can use BerkeleyDB as an alternative backend.
> And administration should not be necessary anyways :).
Ummm, yeah - what could possibly go wrong?
> And yes: Saving large binary blobs in databases is generally a bad idea
> (It is written twice for one thing).
But, like most things there are tradeoffs to consider. For example,.
if you did put everything in a database, you could use the replication
it provides for a 2nd copy - which is about the worst issue with the
current model. If you use a naturally replicated/distributed model
you get fault tolerance and the ability to run multiple servers for
free.
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Les Mikesell
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