Jimmy Wales wrote in part:
Tim Starling wrote:
Does anyone back up the image and oldimage tables,
the user table, the
watchlist table and the sitestats table? How often are the images
themselves backed up?
Good question. I backup everything using rsync to my home computer.
I don't know who else does that, but only the developers would have
access to do that.
I could set up a cron on another machine in the cage to do the same
thing.
I guess the obvious thing to do would be to backup pliny's data on
larousse and larousse's data on pliny. That way ordinary developers like
Brion and I would be able to access them. I don't think we've had any
crashes yet where both machines have stopped working simultaneously.
Brion's been talking about replication for a while. I don't know how
hard it is to set up, but it would be mighty nice if either server could
immediately take over when the other one fails.
-- Tim Starling.