Hi,
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Greg Smith wrote:
> You just have to recognize that the volumes are
> statistically pretty fragile compared to a traditional RAID configuration on
> dedicated hardware and plan accordingly.
I agree completely. I think the advantage is that it FORCES you to
p
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Just Someone wrote:
In case the volume got corrupted (a very rare situation, as the EBS
volumes are very durable), there are snapshots I can recover from and
the WAL files I stream to another storage system (Amazon's S3).
I wouldn't go so far as to say "very durable", beca
Hi,
> So, when a cloud machine fails does it get de-allocated/wiped out? or
> does it is it still out there in a bad state? how do you recover your
> data?
It depends. Sometimes it dies and you can't do anything with it. In
others you can restart it. As we store the data on EBS (which is a
networ
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 06:53:00PM -0700, Just Someone wrote:
- Hi,
-
- I've seen both - some unknown reason for it to die (mostly related to
- the underlying hardware having issues). We also see instance failure
- from time to time with advanced notice. Just like a regular machine
- dies from tim
Hi,
I've seen both - some unknown reason for it to die (mostly related to
the underlying hardware having issues). We also see instance failure
from time to time with advanced notice. Just like a regular machine
dies from time to time, so do cloud instances. I'd say it's bit more
common on the clou
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:11:54PM -0700, Just Someone wrote:
- Hi,
-
- I have more than a few Postgres instances on EC2. For reliability I
- use EBS, and take regular snapshots while also streaming the WAL files
- to S3. So far, the few times that my machine died, I had no issue with
- getting it
Hi,
I have more than a few Postgres instances on EC2. For reliability I
use EBS, and take regular snapshots while also streaming the WAL files
to S3. So far, the few times that my machine died, I had no issue with
getting it back from EBS or the EBS volume. I also take tar backups
every day, and I
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 11:12:32AM -0700, AJAY A wrote:
- Hello All,
-
- I am investigating the possibility of hosting pgsql 8.3 on Amazon EC2
- & implementing a simple HA solution. My search of postgresql & amazon
- cloud has produced little result. Just wondering if there has been
- any recent
Hello All,
I am investigating the possibility of hosting pgsql 8.3 on Amazon EC2
& implementing a simple HA solution. My search of postgresql & amazon
cloud has produced little result. Just wondering if there has been
any recent development with EBS etc. and anybody would care to share
their exp
