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You may not want to get into this, but why was the database half a terabyte anyway? That seems like a shitload of data for a site like ma.gnolia. My best guess
by look_lookatme 18y ago
You may not want to get into this, but why was the database half a terabyte anyway? That seems like a shitload of data for a site like ma.gnolia.
My best guess is the link screenshots were being stored in the DB.
- woadwarrior01 18y agoOr could it be that half a gig was just a figure he came up with to demonstrate the (ostensible) difficulty in doing a proper backup ?
- look_lookatme 18y agoWell, half a gig is trivial to backup. Half a terabyte is not. Assuming you meant to say 500 gigs, then yes, there is difficulty, but it's not uncharted territory. He had two xserves -- perfect for replication.
- gaius 18y agoIt's not even close to uncharted territory. You can walk into any Apple store and buy a 1-terabyte backup device off the shelf. OK so it won't handle your databases properly but that's not the point; 500G is not a troublesome amount of data these days.
- look_lookatme 18y agoNo the point is backing up a 500G database is difficult, but not unpossible. Sorry if that wasn't clear.