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Re: [Bacula-users] Backup of many small files

2013-11-05 01:26:16
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Backup of many small files
From: Ralf Brinkmann <ralf.brinkmann AT wemhoener DOT de>
To: Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net>
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 07:23:40 +0100
Phil Stracchino schrieb:
> On 11/04/13 08:15, Ralf Brinkmann wrote:
>> Changing the data base options might help, for MySql there are some
>> predefined sample configuration files:
>>
>> ./usr/share/mysql/my-medium.cnf
>> ./usr/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf
>> ./usr/share/mysql/my-large.cnf
>> ./usr/share/mysql/my-small.cnf
>>
>> we switched to "/usr/share/mysql/my-huge.cnf"
>
> Honestly, the truth is that all of those sample configuration files are
> all but worthless.  They are hopelessy outdated and in many cases
> actually harmful.  (Red Hat's standard MySQL configuration, for example,
> contains only one directive that actually does anything, and what it
> does is force the old MySQL 3 password hashing scheme which has been
> known for fifteen years to be dangerously insecure.)
>
>
> You are much, much better off to learn how to properrly configure MySQL
> and write a configuration appropriate to your DB server and workload.
> The "sample" configurations will lead you astray.  They are uniformly bad.

thanks for the advice Phil, hopefully there might still slumber a 
certain potential.

-- 
Ralf Brinkmann

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