Definitely, tape for your primary backup is a scary proposition. So to the original poster: Buy yourself the 750GB Seagate SATA drive (16,000 pesos) and don't look back!!
That said, people like Andre can go straight to tape because he's probably using an EMC storage unit. Those things can keep multiple snapshots internally, e.g. "show me how the filesystem looked at 8:00 a.m. yesterday" so the Son and Father are already internally managed in the EMC. So your Grandfather can go to non-linear, craptacular tape. As for availability, EMC has SRDF for replication between two EMC Symmetrix boxes. So you have your fault-tolerance AND your multiple backups. Of course at a tremendous cost, but companies that value their data find that this cost is low. On the Oracle front... Oracle 11g (out Real Soon Now) will have snapshot capability internal (SELECT this_row FROM table AS OF 10:00 A.M. YESTERDAY) among the 600+ enhancements and improvements rolled in. Making the need for high-tech EMC storage less of an issue. And by using DataGuard, you can have your remote replication too, without buying an EMC Symmetrix. :-) On 8/2/07, ian sison (mailing list) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/2/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ian, you seem to be becoming less humorless by the minute. :-D > > Really? I didn't notice... :P _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
