On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake <j...@commandprompt.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote: > >> > In a nutshell, I am heartly recommending virtualization. >> >> In a nutshell, you are relying on luck that both heavy iron machines >> can't lose power at the same time. Sure, it's a low possibility, but >> it's still a real one. >> > > Not luck. Percentage of risk.
They're both ways of saying you're rolling the dice. And in every situation we're rolling the dice, it's just a question of how many and how unlikely a particular outcome it. It's why we all have off-site backups, and so on. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin