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Originally Posted by AdultEUhost
honestly, if you don't really know what you are doing you shouldn't try, especially with valuable data like databases but simply ask your host. You shouldn't be doing their work in the first place, let them set it up.
Not sure what you mean with virtual rack. If the servers have 4 solid state drives with consecutive serials you have another problem by the way, assuming the SSDs don't break down in between they will likely all wear out around the same time  What SSDs are you using? |
thanks for your reply,
I think they are intel 320 series ssd
I am not sure if they have consecutive serial numbers, yes that is worrying i will try to find out if they have.
Our host does not do full management, we hired a server admin on a recommendation from a friend.
However i was just trying to see if what he is suggesting makes any sense. Im sure it does and that its just it makes no sense to me as i know nothing about servers really at all.
He seems to think that this set up could allow us to do the backups to nas without stopping the master db. I think that is what he was saying.
The virtual rack just means the servers are networked together.
From what i am starting to understand, simply copying a db (backing it up) is not the same as replication. Seems its not like just a giant file.