HA MySQL Setups

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 10:43 -0400, Flaherty, Patrick wrote:
> Replication - One master server accepts writes, on write ships it's
> logs to the slave server(s). Async may not be a problem, but seems
> silly there's no flag to wait for the slaves to report a write was
> successful. 

Replication is very handy for off-site backup and situations where
delayed delivery of data is OK (or even preferred due to unreliable
connections).

I'd be reluctant to build a fail-over strategy around replication.

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