Open Stack

Thierry Carrez <thierry at openstack.org> writes:

> James E. Blair wrote:
>> Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> writes:
>>> This isn't super urgent - but it sprung out of the "make sure we're
>>> backing up MySQL databases" bug - which then seemed like something we
>>> should, in fact, _not_ be dealing with.
>> 
>> I'm not sure what you're saying here, but I very strongly believe that
>> we should be dealing with database backups.  I really don't want to lose
>> the data we've created in the wiki, gerrit, etherpads, etc., and backups
>> are necessary for more than simple technical failures.
>
> I suspect Monty's point is that "backups" should be taken care of
> automatically by the cloud database infrastructure ?
>
> I don't really know what the DBaaS offerings currently support, but if
> their backup function is done properly maybe we can leverage it for
> proper backups covering your design goals... (which may involve
> additional copying of backup data to another provider).

That would be great.  I could certainly imagine how a DBaaS offering
could make getting a correct and safe backup from a RDBMS easier, which
we could then ensure goes to a safe place.

Monty and I chatted very briefly in IRC about this, and he mentioned he
would look into what is offered.

-Jim