>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:03:04 -0400, Wanda Prather <wprather AT JASI DOT COM> 
>> said:

> And figure out what you are going to do in case of a system failure.  If the
> total client is many GB, how long will it take you to restore the whole
> thing? Frequently on a WAN, incremental backups are practical, but full
> restores aren't - a good strategy is to keep a spare server in your data
> center; in case you need a full system rebuild, do it locally and then Fedex
> the box to where it needs to go -- it will get there faster!

At the risk of being a fanboy, "What she said".

Again, this is a simple extrapolation from going across the street,
off your network.  At UF, we have some offices that are a few miles
off campus (Distance Education, natch) and we see situations where it
would be faster to unrack the new box, drive it across town, and
restore at Gb speeds than to fill up their link for a few days.


- Allen S. Rout