Re: Anything "time" critical on www.postgresql.org VM?

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