Do the filesystems pass a ZFS scrub? If so, the corruption is
somewhere inside MySQL or ibbackup flying the bits around. This is
MySQL 5 right?

-J

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Ethan Erchinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Andrey Kuzmin wrote:
>> Using ZFS snapshots as an alternative hot backup approach is worth a
>> look. It gives you the same recovery guarantees provided your db log
>> shares the dataset with data, is lightweight, and may be used for
>> fairly frequent incremental backup, modern way :-).
>>
> The problem we have with this type of solution, is that there is no
> verification of the data pages inside InnoDB.  You are blindly copying
> bits from one place to another, without knowing if the bits are
> "secure".  Yes, with ZFS we should have assurance that there were no
> write errors resulting in bad data pages, or indexes.  But, even with
> ZFS, we've still seen errors reading data later with ibbackup that went
> uncaught somehow.  It may even be MySQL writing bad chksum data that is
> causing the issue, but ibbackup catches these issues.
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