If you could publish a brief howto on this I would be most grateful. I bet many others would too.
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Bryan Murphy <bmurphy1...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Tim Uckun <timuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> 1. It's OK if we lose a few seconds (or even minutes) of transactions > >> should one of our primary databases crash. > >> 2. It's unlikely we'll need to load a backup that's more than a few days > >> old. > > > > How do you handle failover and falling back to the primary once it's up? > > We don't plan to fail back to the primary. Amazon is a very different > beast, once a server is dead, we just toss it away. The secondary > permanently becomes the primary and we create a new tertiary from > scratch which then becomes a log shipped copy of the secondary. > > Bryan >
