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Many run into this when they learn the hard way that “RAID is not a backup” as wiping out all your data on one set of disks also wiped it on the other. Ditto for naive replication with no rollback capability. It’s a fancier version of the same thing.

“DROP TABLE customer”

Oh crap! Better failover to DR. Oh crap! It’s dropped there too?!



exponentially delayed replication down the replica chain...


Why increase the interval at all? Why not just equally, or at most linearly increasing, delayed replication?


With replication at 1 minute intervals and ten replicas, you can step back at most 10 minutes.

Same with replicas at 1, 2, 4, 8, etc minutes, ten replicas let you step back up to 17 hours.

Much more time to detect and correct a catastrophic error.




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