On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 04:22:44PM +0000 or thereabouts, Graeme Stewart wrote:
> A reminder to people with production DPMs that it's vital to take dumps of the
> MySQL database. It contains essential metadata for your DPM. If you lose your
> database you might as well have lost every file in your DPM as no one will be
> able to get data out!
>
> The same also applies to the LFC (though at the moment these are not yet in
> production use).
>
> To this end:
>
> http://wiki.gridpp.ac.uk/wiki/MySQL_Backups
The RAL method is also there as well, which is slightly different. Neither
is better.
Steve
>
> contains a hopefully useful perl script for sites that haven't yet done this.
>
> (Linked from various strategic points.)
>
> Cheers
>
> Graeme
>
> PS. I assume that something similar needs done for dCache's postgres database?
>
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