Joost Waversveld wrote:
> > 1. > === > RAID IS NO BACKUP! RAID is only to survive hardware failure of the hard > disk(s) (and only if you don't use RAID0!). > > Other people are mentioning the Master/Slave setup. This will do if you > just need one up to date backup for the coincidence the complete master > server fails but not for the occasion someone / something enters the > wrong SQL query and deletes the wrong data! Then the slave server will > also execute this SQL query and deletes the data also! > > If you want to have the opportunity to go back in time, then you have to > make dumps through mysqldump. > > 2. > === > The bigger the data, the slower the backup will be, the longer the > tables will be locked, the greater is the change your users will notice > it with using the application. For a speedy backup, could put the db on LVM. Then your procedure would be shutdown/freeze db, make lv snapshot, startup/unfreeze db, rsync/backup data, remove snapshot. -- tkb _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
