Re: Akonadi-MySQL Issues
On 2010-03-14, Dominik Schulz <lkml@ds.gauner.org> wrote:
> 2.) Akonadi backup
> Another issue is also related to MySQL. Since MySQL/InnoDB is used as an=20
> Akonadi backend, it troubles me how to properly backup user profiles in a=20
> multi-user setup. Right now I'm just backing up the users homedirs which=20
> covers most personal data and applicatin profiles, but with InnoDB this bec=
> omes=20
> difficult w/o LVM Snapshots (which aren't available on all systems right no=
> w).=20
> How is the akonadi db supposed to be backed up? Or is the information in th=
> e=20
> db no vital to akonadi and shouldn't backed up at all? The akonadi=20
> documentation seems to point this way, but I'm not sure.
Akonadi is a data cache, not a data store, so by nuking the DB you are
only losing the bandwidth spent fetching it in the first place.
> 3.) Virtusoso instead of Mysql as Akonadi backend
> This question would probably better go upstream, but while I'm at asking=20
> questions let me add this: Why isn't Akonadi using Virtuosos using an SQL-
> Backend instead of MySQL? Since it's needed for nepomuk/strigi it could be=
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> used for akonadi as well.
There has been someone test running it and it might end up like that one
day, but it has not (yet) been a priority.
/Sune
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