On 2010-03-14, Dominik Schulz <[email protected]> wrote: > 2.) Akonadi backup > Another issue is also related to MySQL. Since MySQL/InnoDB is used as an=20 > Akonadi backend, it troubles me how to properly backup user profiles in a=20 > multi-user setup. Right now I'm just backing up the users homedirs which=20 > covers most personal data and applicatin profiles, but with InnoDB this bec= > omes=20 > difficult w/o LVM Snapshots (which aren't available on all systems right no= > w).=20 > How is the akonadi db supposed to be backed up? Or is the information in th= > e=20 > db no vital to akonadi and shouldn't backed up at all? The akonadi=20 > documentation seems to point this way, but I'm not sure.
Akonadi is a data cache, not a data store, so by nuking the DB you are only losing the bandwidth spent fetching it in the first place. > 3.) Virtusoso instead of Mysql as Akonadi backend > This question would probably better go upstream, but while I'm at asking=20 > questions let me add this: Why isn't Akonadi using Virtuosos using an SQL- > Backend instead of MySQL? Since it's needed for nepomuk/strigi it could be= >=20 > used for akonadi as well. There has been someone test running it and it might end up like that one day, but it has not (yet) been a priority. /Sune -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
