Re: Physical layout of a DB in RAC environment

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:27:29 -0800
Message-ID: <1075735591.55191@yasure>

John Gardner wrote:

> In message <1075443006.598594_at_yasure>, Daniel Morgan
> <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote:
>

>>I've also come to the point where I think backing up to tape is a 
>>ridiculous waste of time and money. These days you can back up to hard 
>>disks far faster and for the same money. Fill a disk, pop it out, 
>>replace it with another. Recycle hard disks not tape.
>>

>
>
> Yes, and don`t you look SO clever when there is a real disaster (i.e. the
> building catches fire.) There have been 3 times in my career when I have been
> glad for offsite backups. Once the computer room floor collapsed, another
> time there was a breakin and several servers were stolen and another time
> they tried to steal from the server room by ram raiding it causing extensive
> damage. You do tape backups and send them offsite (unless you are careless
> of course.)
>
> Regards
> John Gardner
>

There is no hurdle I am aware of that prevents sending hard disks off site using the same technology as that used with tapes ... a shipping carton. ;-)

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