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Subject: Re: Anything "time" critical on www.postgresql.org VM?
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Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:53:57 +0100
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Thread-Topic: [pgsql-www] Anything "time" critical on www.postgresql.org VM?
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From: "Dave Page" <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>
To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>,
	<pgsql-www@postgresql.org>

=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org=20
> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Marc G. Fournier
> Sent: 26 September 2004 20:30
> To: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
> Subject: [pgsql-www] Anything "time" critical on=20
> www.postgresql.org VM?
>=20
>=20
> I'd like to setup hot failover for that VM, so that if the=20
> server it is running on goes down, it will auto-come back up=20
> on a second server.  So far, the finest I can get the=20
> replication granularity is 15 minutes, so there is the=20
> potential of 15 minutes worth of 'data' to be lost on a crash ...
>=20
> As I believe that most (if not all?) of the stuff on that VM=20
> is pretty static as far as files, and there is no email over=20
> there, I can't think of any reason *not* to do this for that=20
> VM ... but, I wanted to check here to see if anyone knows of=20
> a reason that the potential lose of '15 minutes'=20
> worth of data is a bad thing?
>=20
> If not, I'll get that setup ...
>=20
> I don't believe that any of the other VMs can have this setup=20
> yet, until I can get the 'gap' reduced between replicas,=20
> since they are all dealing with CVS in some form or another,=20
> or email ...

There's nothing time critical on there as far as the 'official' services
go. Dunno if any of the users have any other tasks running that might
be, but I doubt it.

I say go for it!

Regards, Dave