Diskspace is cheap. $300 will get you a 40G hard drive, that's
equivalent to 61 CD's.
Plus, you don't have to burn it. Skip the jukebox idea, in my
oppinion. Besides,
there's a separate issue: will MySQL run against read-only media. I've
no
experience otherwise, but I'm almost sure Oracle wouldn't, and I
wouldn't be
surprised to find other databases like that.
That's a LOT of data. I would do some serious testing to make sure that
MySQL
can handle that.
Jim Popovitch wrote:
>
> A customer of ours is considering using MySQL to archive events from a
> network monitoring system. These events form a timeline of everything that
> occurs on their WAN. The quantity of events could reach 15-20 thousand per
> day, about 15 megs of data. The current thinking is for each month's data
> to be a seperate database (filesystem directory) which would one day be
> archived to CD. At any one time MySQL could have twelve 500+ meg databases
> open. Does this sound OK?
>
> In the near future the customer would purchase a CD-ROM jukebox and use it
> to provide easy access to archived data. The desire here is to virtually
> mount the CDs on the jukebox as subdirectories in /var/lib/mysql/ providing
> the capabilities such as searching for all router failures on a given device
> within the past. Does anyone here have any experience with CD jukeboxes on
> Linux? Does the above seem logical?
>
> -Jim P.
>
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