Elias Oltmanns skrev, on 22-08-2007 14:06: [...]
No, you met the point spot on. Whether it really is a storm in the teacup I'm not quite convinced yet, but it probably isn't exactly one of the most pressing issues either. Please note, however, that once the worst case has happened and you have had to restore the db from a backup, you'd probably be all the more keen to make sure that this sort of thing won't happen again.
As far as this last point goes, "the school" has been installing new server hardware (5 servers) for the last few weeks. On the old RHAS4 mail server (also did master LDAP and InnoDB MySQL stuff) I'd been making a nightly MySQL dump of dspam, SquirrelMail and policyd databases, as well as an slapcat of the OL DB. Importing all of them back into the new RHL5 server was a dead cinch, totally no barfs. Making hot backups of MySQL or LDAP databases is unnecessary, unless they're extremely large.
Best, --Tonni -- Tony Earnshaw Email: tonni at hetnet dot nl
