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From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Database replication... - Mission Critical DBMS's --
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In response to Re: Database replication... - Mission Critical DBMS's --  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:18:47AM -0500, Robert Treat wrote:
> regarding replication, as well as a "high availability how-to" that
> would probably be worth reading.

The high availability howto suggests using rsync to synchronise the
data areas of two data servers.  That is an _extremely bad_ idea.
I've suggested before that the link be removed, because it recommends
something almost guaranteed to introduce massive database corruption
at some point.  If there's no load and you have a fast network, you
might get lucky.  But it is an extremely dangerous plan.

A

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