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Re:Amazon Aurora Backtrack by cookiecaper on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:30PM (#17049233)
Yeah, I know that Aurora already had point-in-time restore. It's disingenuous to pretend like this is something different. This is, at best, an upgrade to Amazon's processes to make the restore process smoother in the ways you've mentioned.
Re:Amazon Aurora Backtrack by awgupta on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @10:17PM (#17079517)
As the previous commentor said, this isn't point in time restore or a change in our processes. It is a change to our database and storage engine to mark regions of log-structured storage as if they did not occur. That's why we can complete a Backtrack in a few seconds - we're just moving some pointers around and restarting the database.