> > What a wild idea! :-) > I don't think it will work; S3 is not really a filesystem afaik. > Hey, well thanks for the compliment! Thing is once you mount your s3 bucket to your local file system via fuse and the s3fs app, your S3 bucket will ACT like a local filesystem in every way. If you read the link that I included in the OP you'll see that the guy uses it as his backup filesystem. The only complaint is that it can be a tad slow to do things this way. Now there are clever ways around this and speed things up. So addressing the speed issue, my question to the list is there any reason it won't work to use a locally mounted S3 bucket as your mysql data dir? Considering that s3fs makes your bucket act like a regular volume. Any thoughts? Thanks! Tim On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Nux! <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: > On 01.10.2012 19:24, Tim Dunphy wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I am soliciting opinion here as opposed technical help with an idea > > I > > have. I've setup a bacula backup system on an AWS volume. Bacula > > stores a > > LOT of information in it's mysql database (in my setup, you can also > > use > > postgres or sqlite if you chose). Since I've started doing this I > > notice > > that the mysql data directory has swelled to over 700GB! That's quite > > a lot > > and its' easting up valuable disk space. > > > > So I had an idea. What about uses the fuse based s3fs to mount an S3 > > bucket on the local filesystem and use that as your mysql data dir? > > In > > other words mount your s3 bucket on /var/lib/mysql > > > > I used this article to setup the s3fs file system > > > > > > > http://benjisimon.blogspot.com/2011/01/setting-up-s3-backup-solution-on-centos.html > > > > And everything went as planned. So my question to you dear listers is > > if I > > do start using a locally mounted s3 bucket as my mysqld data dir, > > will > > performance of the database be acceptable? If so, why? If not are > > there any > > other reasons why it would NOT be a good idea to do this? > > > > The steps I have in mind are basically this: > > > > 1) mysqldump --all-databases > alldb.sql > > 2) stop mysql > > 3) rm -rf /var/lib/mysql/* > > 4) mount the s3 bucket on /var/lib/mysql > > 5) start mysql > > 6) restore the alldb.sql dump > > > > > > Thanks for your opinions on this! > > > > Tim > > 4) > > What a wild idea! :-) > I don't think it will work; S3 is not really a filesystem afaik. > > -- > Sent from the Delta quadrant using Borg technology! > > Nux! > www.nux.ro > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- GPG me!! gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys F186197B