On Mar 11, 2009, at 6:14, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 4:13 AM, River Tarnell > <[email protected]> wrote: >> ... however, if we had enough money to support the toolserver >> properly, i think >> it would be perfectly reliable as a backup. > > It wouldn't protect against an accidental DELETE FROM page;, though, > would it? Slaves of any kind aren't great backups unless they're > deliberately lagged by a significant interval. Quite so. :) Replication is fantastic against outright failure, but by itself doesnt help agaibst daya loss within the system which gets replicated right alobg with it we're working on ensuring we've got regular snapshots as well, though this isn't up yet. Regular snapshots plus the replication binlogs provide for point-in-time restoration. -- brion > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
