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Re: BACKUP DB to disk - questions

2000-09-24 22:18:47
Subject: Re: BACKUP DB to disk - questions
From: "Walker, Lesley R" <lesley.walker AT EDS DOT COM>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 14:16:53 +1200
Prather, Wanda [SMTP:Wanda.Prather AT JHUAPL DOT EDU] wrote:
>         [Prather, Wanda]  I agree with you that in an EMC Symmetrix, the
> liklihood of physical failure is very very small.  I've personally never
> had
> to restore a TSM DB due to software corruption (and I'm not particularly
> gentle with mine), but other people on this list have. AND there is the
> possibility of human error to be paranoid about.  Overall likelihood very
> small, but impact huge....
>
Thanks for taking the time to answer.  It did occur to me, after I sent the
message, that the most likely scenario for losing the EMC is if someone
kicks the cable.  :-)

So a mirror on local disk seems like a good idea.
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