[Mulgara-dev] CRITICAL: Bug fix to Backup operation

Russell Uman ruman at plos.org
Wed Mar 26 15:16:14 UTC 2008


> On 26/03/2008, at 6:21 AM, Russell Uman wrote:
> > we've done backup and then restore on production databases 
> - is there 
> > anything we need to do to repair our data and/or to look for 
> > inconsistencies?
> 
> Backups obtained while holding the write-lock should be 
> completely fine - as I believe that is how PLoS was doing 
> their backups this shouldn't have affected your existing backups.

correct. since we always got NPE on backups w/o write lock we only ever
used backups that were made in a lock :)

> AFAIK this affects PLoS only in that with this patch you 
> won't be seeing the NPE when you try and run backups on the 
> committed-phase as we discussed in SF.

thank you!

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