It semeed so simple, just setup two memcachedb instances and point them at eachother. Instant fault tolerance, Right? If only it were so simple!
Its not entirely clear from the documentation how to setup memcachedb for fault tolerance. Here’s the procedures I’ve found useful.
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One of my favorite bloggers, Peter over at Percona/MySQL Performance Blog, has thrown down the gauntlet. Basically saying that it would be fairly trivial to write an incremental InnoDB backup tool.
If you see me, and I haven’t run up to you and told you that I am writing/have written an amazing InnoDB incremental backup tool, I give you permission to make fun of me. This sounds like a fun, interesting project that will challenge me and sort of scratches an itch I have, which is, faster MySQL backups.