Server Outage

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Originally Posted by Wisteso [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If he's relying on replication, I guess that means the disks suffered unrecoverable corruption? Not using raid 4/5 I guess, if they have replication? The odds of two disks failing together are pretty small.

Replication means one database server is reading the logs of another database server and replicating itself to be the same, usually a handful of seconds behind. That should mean they have a database server still good to go, but it can be a lot of work to bring an application up on the replicated database, plus the risks associated.