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Hey there!
Just a quick question on my Forge DB backups:
I'm running a MYSQL 5.7 DB on forge right now, and have setup Forge's automatic DB backup to be daily.
I'd like to have this more often, hourly even - is this a bad idea? Will it affect DB performance?
Thanks in advance!
Will it affect DB performance?
Yes
is this a bad idea?
Up to your need
But you certainly have better to put in place a replication (hot real time backup) schema, it'll consume as many cpu and disk but the load will be equal (no peak) and it's better than hour.
Thank you - very interesting. I do not have this setup right now. Is this the same as have a master-slave configuration for read/write on laravel?
Under the hood Laravel probably uses mysql or postgresl replication, as far as I'm concerned I use directly base replication (postgresql) because I'm new to Laravel.
Settings this config in Laravel should answer to your question since you have 2 DB on 2 different hosts.
Awesome, thanks - yea, the docs don't make it clear if it's actual replication happening. But that would be great if so.
Appreciate it!
depends on many options. a properly configured mysqldump does not create problems.
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