Thierry Carrez <[email protected]> writes: > James E. Blair wrote: >> Monty Taylor <[email protected]> writes: >>> This isn't super urgent - but it sprung out of the "make sure we're >>> backing up MySQL databases" bug - which then seemed like something we >>> should, in fact, _not_ be dealing with. >> >> I'm not sure what you're saying here, but I very strongly believe that >> we should be dealing with database backups. I really don't want to lose >> the data we've created in the wiki, gerrit, etherpads, etc., and backups >> are necessary for more than simple technical failures. > > I suspect Monty's point is that "backups" should be taken care of > automatically by the cloud database infrastructure ? > > I don't really know what the DBaaS offerings currently support, but if > their backup function is done properly maybe we can leverage it for > proper backups covering your design goals... (which may involve > additional copying of backup data to another provider).
That would be great. I could certainly imagine how a DBaaS offering could make getting a correct and safe backup from a RDBMS easier, which we could then ensure goes to a safe place. Monty and I chatted very briefly in IRC about this, and he mentioned he would look into what is offered. -Jim _______________________________________________ OpenStack-Infra mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-infra
