Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!xmission!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!elnk-pas-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Physical layout of a DB in RAC environment Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 07:27:29 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1075735591.55191@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1075443006.598594@yasure> <401e2867$0$15134$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <401e2867$0$15134$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 35 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:253467 John Gardner wrote: > In message <1075443006.598594@yasure>, Daniel Morgan > 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. ;-) -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)