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

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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
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