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Brad Yes I was talking about more than just the data. User profiles, Hosts tables, the whole shebang. Agreed you have to decide which is the lesser of two evils - but sometimes it is not your decision. It seems you are in the fortunate position of deciding at the moment It sound like the system is fairly static and not a lot happens on it, otherwise your approach would be somewhat more problematic. Regards Evan Harris >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 >+--- >| This is the WEB400 Mailing List! >| To submit a new message, send your mail to WEB400@midrange.com. >| To subscribe to this list send email to WEB400-SUB@midrange.com. >| To unsubscribe from this list send email to WEB400-UNSUB@midrange.com. >| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com >+--- +--- | This is the WEB400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to WEB400@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to WEB400-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to WEB400-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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