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Having a hot standby/failover is nice, but of course only the icing on top of your backup strategy. I read the article same as the OP, it doesn't mention any b

by Nitramp 14y ago

Having a hot standby/failover is nice, but of course only the icing on top of your backup strategy. I read the article same as the OP, it doesn't mention any backup system, only the mirroring. In fact, they did restore from a replica that was out of date in the end (from projects.kde.org). Had they had actual backups, the article would surely mention they only used projects.kde.org because it was somewhat more recent than their last backup? The story about planning to do regular ZFS snapshots hints to the same, if they had a backup system they wouldn't need that. edit: sorry, is that your post/do you have more insight? In that case I'm sure you know better than me speculating on what the author meant ;-)

sho_hn 14y ago
> edit: sorry, is that your post/do you have more insight? In that case I'm sure you know better than me speculating on what the author meant ;-) Nah, I'm not Jeff. I have some general insight because I was involved with setting up our git infrastructure in its early days, but I haven't worked on the mirroring code, and I've been out of the loop on day-to-day admin operations for a while, so I can't comment on the backup schemes that may or may not be in action on the servers right now.