RE: Hey Guys - people actually think that I know what I'm talking about...

Evan,

You'll have to explain more what you are talking about.  I'm talking data,
it sounds like you're talking system settings, etc.  

Again, you need to decide which is the lesser of two evils.  Being down for
an hour to do a system save once a month, or not being able to restore if
your machine crashes.  I choose the first.  No amount of reasoning will be
able to convince me that doing that one hour a month to do backups is more
important than the customer wanting 24/7 no matter what, even if it means
total disaster and the inability to get anything back.  

Of course, if the customer was so blind that they didn't think of that, I
would specifically put in my contract that they declined the backup option
and that any rebuilding of the system as a result of a crash would be
charged triple time rates.

Brad


> Brad
> 
> To be honest I meant a system rebuild :) If anyone still does 
> these these 
> days. I take it from your comments that the webserver is 
> easily rebuilt 
> somehow, and from that point of view, a recovery could be 
> accomplished 
> using scripts that rebuild things rather than restoring. Recovery and 
> restore are not necessarily the same thing even though the 
> point is often 
> missed
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