David T-G wrote:
... and do you have the ability to get such incidents repaired quickly ... our one upstream ISP had their entire fibre bundle torn out of the ground by a construction crew and had the entire bundle spliced back together the same day (6 hours). I almost poured coffee on myself when they called to say it was back online.- do you have redundant networking to my machine, both to handle a failed switch and a backhoe accident?
Speaking of which -- find out what networks they're connected to and check those companies' current SEC filings :-)
... and who is responsible for doing so, and calculate how far back this means you have to go. If they move tapes to another site every night, it may still mean a 48 hour rollback in the case of a flood or fire, depending on how tapes are handled.- do you store your tapes in a disaster-proof facility?
PS, there's no reason not to buy cheap space at another ISP that allows SSH and simply run a secure tunnel to your primary ISP and run it as a replication client to save your MySQL data. I'm sure David, myself or any other ISP person in this list would be happy to quote you on such a job.
I have a client who cancelled their support contract with us and still does their regular backups but has absolutely no-one on staff who knows how to do a proper restore. Don't be in that situation. (We'd do one if they paid us, of course ...)- what is your expected restore time for a file or db table on my machine? - what is your expected recovery time for a complete disaster on my machine?
and go from there; if any of the answers don't sound right, then ask more questions about that topic.
If they tell you its a stupid question, that's another good hint :-) -- Michael T. Babcock C.T.O., FibreSpeed Ltd. http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
