On 10/13/12 3:04 PM, Leif Biberg Kristensen wrote:
> Lørdag 13. oktober 2012 23.53.03 skrev Heine Ferreira :
>> >Hi
>> >
>> >Are there any best practices for avoiding database
>> >corruption?
> In my experience, database corruption always comes down to flaky disk drives.
> Keep your disks new and shiny eg. less than 3 years, and go for some kind of
> redundancy in a RAID configuration.
also, ECC RAM so creeping bit rot doesn't slip in from memory without
detection. if you use a raid controller with a write-back cache, be
sure it has BBU or flash-back.
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