On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 8:54 AM, John<[email protected]> wrote: > Most industrial strength backup systems don't do a complete overright every > night. The first time through, the backup can take several days, but after > that the software just pulls the updates. Otherwise, you'd be into that > multiple day backup every night, and that's not doable when backing up > tbytes and storing in a remote san. I hate backup, whether it is to a local > disk, a san, or (and especially) if sending to tape. Tape is the worst > medium possible, as it will lie to you. The tape can become unreadable at > any time, you can't easily view the files you think you backed up, etc. etc. > etc. ---------------------------------
I do the log shipping on the db. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer SQL Server DBA Web and Winform Development Independent Contractor Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
