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by WALoeIII 5116 days ago
I run a master with a "hot" master each in a different AZ and slaves of each in their respective AZs for days like today. Expensive, but makes it easy to sleep at night.

The slaves have their EBS disks snapshotted every 30 minutes, the master every 24 hours.
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derekclapham 5116 days ago
Yeah... I snapshot our slaves every 30 minutes.. When you say "hot" master what exactly do you mean?
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WALoeIII 5116 days ago
A "full-spec" machine, another X-Large with 4 EBS volumes that I can fail over to. Its in circular replication with the other "active" master (only one is receiving writes at a time). These instances are only snapshotted once a day to keep them as fast as possible.
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