[ale] Backup frequency question

[William Fragakis]

Jim,
The db can be run from a samba server. I have a test bed at home of the
database and I run the Windows kvm using a samba directory for the
storage - idea being that I can download the nightly offsite backups so
worst comes to worst, I can replicate the office environment here (I
really am paranoid about sprinklers, power surges and about anything
else that might affect the family livelihood).

I guess the issue would be the overhead of the db running off a samba
share which is running drbd (very cool idea, btw). Given desktop level
servers - dual/quad core athlons, etc. - is this a reasonable idea or
should I just reach deep in my pocket and license a replication server?

Also, does DRBD get around the file lock issue that prevents rsync from
playing well. I would assume it does since it operates at block level
but I'd hate to assume too much.

thanks.
William

On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 13:04 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:50 PM, William Fragakis
> <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
>         
>         
>         Jim, it's a Sybase product, not Jet. The app is isolated. It's
>         reached
>         via single window rdesktop sessions from LTSP.
>         
> Sybase standalone is not as fragile as Jet so that's a big relief.
> Going from hot backups to only cold backup sounds more like a
> downgrade to me. 
> 
> Glad to see LSTP in use :-)
> 
> Hmm. Can the db storage be run from a Samba server? Then the Linux
> system can run DRBD and have multiple live copies on separate discrete
> machines.
> 
> 
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