On 3 Sep 2010 17:41:48 -0700, cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark Morris) wrote:
>>Mirroring will happily duplicate bad data written by a misbehaving >>program (or by misbehaving hardware for that matter). > >And a backup program will blithely copy bad data to the backup >mechanism. Sure, but we can go back to a back-up taken *before* the screw-up, provided we know about the screw-up in time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html