On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:57:35 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> I guess we *could* back up to a hard drive. But I'm not really that keen
> on the idea. We would have to shut the server down to connect the drive,
> start it back up again, format the drive, copy all the data, somehow
> verify the data, shut the server down, disconnect the drive, put it
> somewhere safe, and start up the server again. Every single night. No
> thanks...

Mirroring - or connect devices to a SAN and mirror across multiple SAN 
devices.

Even iSCSI devices being mirrored would give you some real-time 
recovery.  No need to connect/disconnect.  Heck, for my server here at 
home, I run a shell script to dump the contents of important directories 
on the internal drive to an external 1 TB USB device.

Jim

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