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Power Outage Takes Wikimedia Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the problem-with-non-absolute-power dept.

Baricom writes "Just a few weeks after a major power outage took out well-known blogging service LiveJournal for several hours, almost all of Wikimedia Foundation's services are offline due to a tripped circuit breaker at a different colo. Among other services, Wikimedia runs the well-known Wikipedia open encyclopedia. Coincidentally, the foundation is in the middle of a fundraising drive to pay for new servers. They have established an off-site backup of the fundraising page here until power returns."

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  1. Re:mysql bad at disaster recovery? by fimbulvetr · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    UHH...Oracle replication is MUCH more tedious, time consuming and error prone than mysql. It's also almost a guarentee that any loss of an oracle server will require recovery. Mysql can handle reboots well.

    Not sure about DB2, but I'm pretty sure postgres is more difficult, considering it's not even native to the software (Last time I checked).

    BTW, write a damn script. Mysql was written for unix, unix thrives on scripts. If you can't handle writing a script, why the hell are you a DB admin?