On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 07:33 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:

> Mirroring is great, but backups are still a good idea.

I'd go even further.
Mirroring presumes the source is *always* valid - in fact mirroring is
great for propagating errors. Timely (tape) backups are still mandatory.
If you rely on mirroring only, you'd better not get a (shared) MCAT
corruption - or any of the other critical exposures.

Shane ...

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