Hi Woody, I can't answer your question, but I just wanted you to know that I like your signature ;-). Thats definitely a good one.!!
Best regards Nils Valentin Tokyo/Japan 2003年 7月 4日 金曜日 18:02、woody at nfri dot com さんは書きました: > I am in the process of setting up replication for my mysql servers, and > had a couple of questions I wanted to clarify. One of the slaves will > be located in an offsite hotsite, and another local. The hotsite slave > will only be used to mirror the data, in the event of a failure or > accident at the office, the data is safe in the offsite location. > > The local slave will server 2 purposes, and here is where my question > comes in. Currently I shutdown the mysql server once/night for backups. > When I get the replication in place I would like to do the backups on > the local slave so the master remains up and available 24x7. So 2-3 > times per day the slave would go down run a quick backup and get back to > its slave duties. > > When the server goes down for backup, it will pick back up where it was > when it comes back online correct? > > I read in the archives that the replication is near instantanous > depending on network connection. Would it be beneficial for the master > and slave to have an additional network card and the replication be done > over a cross-over cable and therefore out-of-band with the general > network traffic? > > What kind of traffic volume is generated with replication, our database > has a pretty steady read/update volume throughout the day and its pretty > much 50/50 read/write. I do plan to offload some of the reads (such as > for daily reports and informational sites to the slave. > > Hopefully this isn't too long, and clear. > > -- > Woody > > In a world without boundaries why > do we need Gates and Windows? -- --- Valentin Nils Internet Technology E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.knowd.co.jp Personal URL: http://www.knowd.co.jp/staff/nils -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
