Help, my disk array has one dead member

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 4:34 AM, william drescher <william at techservsys.com>
wrote:

> On 4/1/2017 11:56 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
> That's not going to work for me.  Most of the data is in a single
>> SQLite database.  It's all or nothing and rsync doesn't help.
>> Moreover, remember this is a hobby project, and I have no
>> "offsite" to use.  I can and do back up the individual
>> contributions to the database, or the algorithms and commands
>> used, so restoring from those would be  possible but ugly.
>>
>>
> I may be completely off base for you, but we have found that
>  using mySQL replication is our solution.
> The slave server is off site connected via a hardware based VPN.
> This gives us a hot backup of our data and the ability to switch to the
> backup server if the primary dies.
>
> In your case it would give you the safety of continuous backup of your
> data.  You could have the backup server at the same location (Our
> "obsolete" windows machines become fully functional linux servers.)
>
> of course the conversion from SQLite to mySQL would be a big job.
> --bill
>
> Not to mention arranging for an off-site repository.  It's a bit beyond my
personal budget.

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Kevin O'Gorman
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