[committee] Koha

[Matt Johnston]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 11:51:28PM +0900, David Adam wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Ewan MacLeod wrote:
> > To both UCC and Unisfa committees,
> >
> > I was talking with some of wheel on Monday night and they suggested that
> > we host Koha - the Unisfa library database on one of the UCC machines
> > (that is apparently backed up to tape). This way we won't have to rely
> > on the ..less reliable Deep Thought.
> 
> I don't think the databases themselves are actually backed up using the
> proper tools, so we'd probably need to fix that.

A couple of weeks ago I set up a cronjob to mysqldump on
mussel each night before we backup. So mightn't be doing
100% perfect locking, but should be OK given our low DB
query rates.

Matt