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 ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

