Now I've read all the posts about database backup.. I'm currently building a www-site (an internet bookstore which is going to be fairly large, one of the biggest in my country. This has been a pet project for me for the last 8 months, otherwise I would have to watch the company board waste loads of cash on another bad solution, like the present one) Of all things.... I'm trying out the MySQL 4.0.1-alpha release, and have been running it without problems for 40 days now, under pretty heavy load. I just wish I could get my hands on some 'patched' fulltext search functions ;)
But I must find an easy way to backup the data.. And this is how I was thinking about doing it. I've got one server running as replication-slave (this server will be able to 'step-in' for the main server if it should fail. Main server is running raid with IDE disks) If I stop the slave process for a short time, I could either write the important tables to CD or a tape-streamer. I don't see any problems with this......? I don't think e-mailing the compressed backup would work... since some of the tables are pretty large. But I hate tape-streamers... My experience with tapes is pretty bad. Been thinking about some removable HD's etc... They are not that expensive anymore. Even an Apple IPod (10gb version) could be used to take backups of the site (with the firewire support and support for windows it would be easy to set ut and very fast) -I'm really open for suggestions here. Currently the database files are around 3gb, but will probably grow to around 4gb in a short time (transfering costumer info etc. from the old system) and then grow continuously the rest of it's life. Regards Erlend Stromsvik --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
