[erlang-questions] how: mnesia with simultaneous permanent node failure (EC2)

[Chandru]

On 12/12/2007, Ulf Wiger (TN/EAB) <ulf.wiger@REDACTED> wrote:
> Paul Mineiro skrev:
> > in order to get my disaster recovery situation managed on EC2, i went
> > ahead and wrote mnesia_schema:del_table_copies/2, which allows one to
> > remove multiple tables in one operation.
> [...]
> >>
> >> i'm thinking about using mnesia on EC2, but i'm having problems figuring
> >> out disaster recovery.
> >>
> >> some background: on EC2, you can start as many machines (instances) as you
> >> like.  if you lose one, you can start another, but it'll have a different
> >> hostname.  when you lose an instance, you lose whatever was stored on the
> >> drive.
>
> What if mnesia were equipped with a node name abstraction layer, and
> you could simply tell it which physical node corresponds to a given
> abstract node?
>
> This would also make it unnecessary to explicitly traverse backups
> in order to migrate a mnesia database from one machine to another;
> you'd simply re-map the abstract node name instead.
>

That would be incredibly useful!

Chandru