Christoph Donges wrote:

> The sticky point is the database servers, where all the important
> stuff is. Although we use MySQL's transactional InnoDB tables, they
> can still sometimes be left in an unrecoverable state. Attempting to
> bring up the master database and one of the slaves immediately after
> the downtime showed corruption in parts of the database. We're
> currently running full backups of the raw data on two other database
> slave servers prior to attempting recovery on them (recovery alters
> the data).
>
> http://www.wikipedia.org/

SO why not switch to an engine that can actually handle transactions?
Was the point of the post that you need some help doing that ?
I see at present that wikipedia is unavailable again, perhaps now is the
time to change ;)

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