Answer by duffbeer703 for best practice? Consumer data in MySQL on Amazon EBS...
Check out a cloud backup provider with dedupe -- Asigra is a leader in this space. You want your backup data to be on different spindles and power grids than your primary data if possible.The...
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There is no substitute for a cold offsite backup.Any backup that's always online and talking to live servers, especially one in the same data center, runs the risk of either being compromised by...
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You should probably set up regular logical backups, which for mysql probably means setting up a dedicated slave to do mysqldumps from. Those should be reloaded and tested regularly as well. If you're...
View ArticleAnswer by Xorlev for best practice? Consumer data in MySQL on Amazon EBS...
What size of database are we looking at here? Personally I use mysqlhotcopy for MyISAM tables and keep multiple copies. But without extra copies, I suppose you could keep binary logs. The binary logs...
View Articlebest practice? Consumer data in MySQL on Amazon EBS (Elastic block store)
This is a consumer app, so I will care about storage costs - I don't want to have 5x copies of data lying about. The app shards very well, so I can use MySQL and not have scaling issues.Amazon EBS has...
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