[Babase] Papio Information

Susan Alberts alberts at duke.edu
Wed Jun 10 20:32:45 EDT 2009


Thanks Karl and Ryan,

>
> The one important take-away point that differs from the previously
> explained backup plan is that backups are put into the backup system
> only every other day.  We do keep the prior days backup, for 1 day
> only, on disk on papio until it's overwritten by the next days backup.
> So, in case of disaster we could lose 2 days of work.

For clarification, do you mean that the incrementals that Ryan talked  
about are kept for only 24 hours? I didn't understand "We do keep the  
prior days backup, for 1 day only..." But, this refers to a backup on  
papio, and I think the incrementals that Ryan is talking about are on  
a backup server. So, I think what Karl is saying is that in addition,  
to Diffs, Fulls and Incrementals, we do a backup ourselves onto Papio  
but only keep it for 24 hours. So if an incremental is done Monday at  
4 am (or whatever), and the server crashes catastrophically on Weds at  
3 am, there is a chance that we've lost all changes from Monday 4  
onwards, because any backup we made on Papio might have been taken at,  
say, Monday 10 pm and not kept past Tuesday 10 pm. Right? But then,  
wouldn't there be a papio backup taken at 10 pm Tuesday?

Sorry if I'm not getting soemthing obvious.
>
>
> Ryan, the only thing I can think of that might go wrong is if
> the database backup is being written at the same time that
> the backup is done to tape.  This would leave us with an
> incomplete backup on every tape.

I don't get this.

Susan

> (It would also be good if
> the database backup to /disk completed before, rather than after,
> the backup to tape so there's not another day of lag introduced.)
>
> Just thought it's worth mentioning the above just in case.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
> Free Software:  "You don't pay back, you pay forward."
>                 -- Robert A. Heinlein
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