On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 22:11, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > > > Having considered your mindset, and knowing my client, I can > confidentetly say that although they would like to SAY that they want a > backup for a true dissaster, if I provide them with a quote for that > service they will quickly change their mind. Your suggestion of in > chasis drive backup, and not RAID seems very interesting, and I see your > point where simple mirroring prooves useless for typical problems. Simple mirroring can be valuable for the not-uncommon case of drive failure and will avoid having any downtime or data loss as a result (if you have hot-swap drives - otherwise you can take the system down at a convenient time for the replacement). However operator error and software bugs that delete/corrupt data are much more likely and deserve keeping an on-line nightly snapshot history available with a system like backuppc. There are people running backuppc from remote locations without too many problems. If your client already has another location with reasonable bandwidth or at least a decent internet connection it might not cost that much to set up. -- Les Mikesell les@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
