Re: Can MySql database store images?

From	Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net>
Newsgroups	comp.databases.mysql
Subject	Re: Can MySql database store images?
Date	2011-04-25 19:29 -0400
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On 4/25/2011 9:17 AM, Tim Watts wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>
>> On 4/25/2011 8:32 AM, Tim Watts wrote:
>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> It's done every day by a large number of companies.  But your figures
>>>> are way off - on a 10 GB network it would take about 3 hours.
>>>
>>> My figures are based on reality with real hosts and other stuff going on
>>> on both hosts and networks.
>>>
>>
>> So are mine.  Large datacenters back up a lot more than that daily.
>
> You might not have been using a 1gig connected backup host full of RAIDed
> SATA drives. Costs and real world again. Because of our econimical solution
> we could afford on a modest budget to maintain mackups of all fileservers
> and RDBMS hosts with many many incrementalsm duplicated too with one on site
> and a second redundant offsite backup - both of which were near zero
> operational cost (no tapes).
>

I could have other recommendations, but they are far outside the purpose 
of this newsgroup.

>> So you really have no idea if it works or not.  But that's the purpose
>> of backups - and a backup which can't do that is worthless.
>
> Of course I knew it worked because I had to do the odd restore. I really
> don't know why you are having trouble following my use of English.
>

You just said you never had to do a complete restore. Which is it?

>>
>> The whole purpose of a backup is to be able to restore a disk in case of
>> failure.  The ability to do a full restore is ALWAYS considered
>> necessary by any qualified sysadmin - even on mainframes.
>>
>
> Please go an read my words again. I said, several times over that a full
> restore to the last backup point was trivial. I also said I have never had a
> reason to do a full restore to a previous to last point.
>

Which says you don't know if it really worked or not.

> I also said, that if there was a specification requiring easy and efficient
> restores to arbitrary points in time, that was easy enough to design in at
> the start at some cost to the efficiency of the backup system.
>

Very easy to do with full backups.

But again - we are off-topic in this newsgroup.  I will not carry this 
discussion on any longer.

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  Re: Can MySql database store images? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2011-04-24 09:23 +0200
    Re: Can MySql database store images? "Robert Crandal" <rcranz143101@gmail.com> - 2011-04-24 01:19 -0700
      Re: Can MySql database store images? "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> - 2011-04-24 11:13 +0200
  Re: Can MySql database store images? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-24 11:17 +0100
  Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-24 13:06 +0100
  Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-24 08:42 -0400
    Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-24 14:45 +0100
      Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-24 10:27 -0400
        Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-24 19:04 +0100
          Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-24 14:44 -0400
            Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-24 20:51 +0100
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                Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-24 19:55 -0400
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-25 08:30 +0100
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-25 06:32 -0400
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-25 12:04 +0100
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-25 07:18 -0400
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-25 13:32 +0100
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-25 09:09 -0400
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-25 14:17 +0100
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-25 19:29 -0400
                Re: Can MySql database store images? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-25 12:30 +0100
                Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-25 13:59 +0100
                Re: Can MySql database store images? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-25 18:10 +0100
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          Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-24 17:05 -0400
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                Re: Can MySql database store images? Tim Watts <tw@dionic.net> - 2011-04-27 12:32 +0100
                Re: Can MySql database store images? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-04-27 15:07 +0100
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      Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-24 10:28 -0400
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            Re: Can MySql database store images? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-04-25 06:34 -0400
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      Re: Can MySql database store images? Axel Schwenke <axel.schwenke@gmx.de> - 2011-04-25 00:46 +0200
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