On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 19:08, Toby Thain <t...@telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
> > On 19-Dec-09, at 11:34 AM, Colin Raven wrote > > Then again (not sure how gurus feel on this point) but I have this probably > naive and foolish belief that snapshots (mostly) oughtta reside on a > separate physical box/disk_array... > > > > That is not possible, except in the case of a mirror, where one side is > recoverable separately. > I was referring to zipping up a snapshot and getting it outta Dodge onto another physical box, or separate array. > You seem to be confusing "snapshots" with "backup". > No, I wasn't confusing them at all. Backups are backups. Snapshots however, do have some limited value as backups. They're no substitute, but augment a planned backup schedule rather nicely in many situations.
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