Re: Database versus filesystem for storing images

This is a web app, so in my example all of the images live on a web
server, and our data lives on a separate database server. We have a
completely duplicated setup offsite, and mirror images of every server
at the backup site. Every night we use rsync to duplicate everything
offsite. Also, a cron job pg_dumps every night and copies the dump over
to the backup DB server.

And before anybody gives me any guff, our office is in New Orleans, and
we went through Katrina with less than an hour of downtime, and without
losing anything. So there ;)

Jorge Godoy wrote:

>John McCawley <nospam(at)hardgeus(dot)com> writes:
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>>Don't store your images in the database. Store them on the filesystem and
>>store their path in the database. Anyone that tells you otherwise is a stark
>>raving madman :)
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>>My system is very heavily used, and our pg_dump is only a few gigs. Meanwhile
>>our images/documents storage is well over a hundred gigs. I'd hate to think
>>that I'd have to dump and restore 100 gigs every time I wanted to dump the
>>newest data to the development database.
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>How do you plan your backup routine and how do you guarantee that on a failure
>all needed data is restored? I mean, how do you handle integrity with data
>outside the database?
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