I just read your message after I sent my previous one. I was using MYSQL
master-slave
replication with my desktop servers and only running a client my laptop, but
after realizing how quick the dump & restore was and how rarely I actually "go
mobile", it was easier for me to just do the restore
> On Sep 20, 2017, at 1:35 AM, DaveC49 wrote:
>
> Hi Colin,
>
> i agree with both you and Bram there. It is not a reliable backup of the
> database but really only useful for sharing a database across several
> machines and worked well for the use case where my
Hi Colin,
i agree with both you and Bram there. It is not a reliable backup of the
database but really only useful for sharing a database across several
machines and worked well for the use case where my laptop was generally
connected to my LAN and I worked away from home occasionally. haven't
Colin,
You've got that correct. Replication, just like e.g. RAID protects against
some forms of data loss but it is not a full backup solution.
It could be part of it though, e.g. if running a more permanent backup from
the slave is easier than running it on the master.
MySQL/MariaDB have
Just to point out that database replication might not be considered a
good form of backup. It copes with something like a disc crash but if,
for example, a user or bug were accidentally to delete large sections
of the db then that deletion would be copied to the slave database.
Unless I
Thanks. I'll try that. Everything worked as advertised on a simple USB
drive so it may be a Windows issue or power on the old Windows 7 machine.
On Sep 15, 2017 7:29 PM, "Art" wrote:
> I'm not familiar with "WinDrive". My 5TB USB drive is Seagate Backup Plus
> formatted to
Windows 7 and 10. Mostly interested in a backup copy off the main computer
in case it crashes. Mine did, the Windows 10 machine. All my GC data was
restored from the Carbonite backup. Grateful it worked. The 7 machine is at
the school dedicated to accounting. I think there is something wrong with
I'm not familiar with "WinDrive". My 5TB USB drive is Seagate Backup Plus
formatted to NTFS with a GPT (to handle drives larger than 2TB).
Since you said you could see the files from the first machine, the data was
likely there. If you cannot see any files on the same drive from the second
What are the OSes on the source and target computers?What is the external hard
disk filesystem and how do you know it's compatible with both computers?
I assume you are able to run GC on both computers, hence the point of copying
the db to the second one. E.g., I routinely archive my db from