you appear to have confused reliability with backup.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Ban Spam" <ban-spam_at_operamail.com> wrote in message
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> pacland_at_onebox.com (Pacman) wrote in
> <HFy56.3440$fj6.276461_at_bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>:
> [...snip...]
> >My uses would be for home use and also at work, at work, I'd use it for
> >a documentation server. This documentation server would hold literally
> >millions of records and the database would required to be backed up
> >every week.
>
> Within the last month, I've built myself a new home PC.
> I think/hope that I've solved this PC's backup issues by buying a
> motherboard with a built-in RAID controller and by mirroring (RAID-1)
> a pair of 45GB disks. The Raid controller was about $25 (US) more
> than the non-Raid version & the disks were $189 each. Ideally for
> about just over $200 I don't have to worry about backing up Oracle
> or anything else.
>
> HTH & YMMV!
Received on Tue Jan 09 2001 - 05:09:50 CST
