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		mitchellh on May 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling Riak at Kiip I'll address that here: We use streaming replication with a hot standby for fault tolerance on the PostgreSQL side. For backups in addition to the streaming replication we do WAL shipping to S3 every 15 minutes or 16 MB, and we do a full base backup to S3 daily during our low-traffic time of the day, which uploads around 30 GB to S3 daily (but LZO-compressed, so actually down to around 3 GB).

Scramblejams on May 26, 2012 [–]

Thanks, Mitchell. Is your hot standby in a different zone (e.g. one in the West, one in the East) so you can handle one of their big outages?

mitchellh on May 27, 2012 | [–]

Yes

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