On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Ron Lyman wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Sixbury, Dan wrote:
> 
> > 5.  The other key I always have to ask about when someone starts talking
> > about incremental changes backups is what about doing a full restore?!  If
> > we do one full backup, and then only incrementals, if we ever have to do a
> > full recovery, it is going to be extremely slow.
> 
> The data you have at the central site would be an exact copy of the remote.  
> You 
> can do an ad hoc backup of this to tape, and ship out the tape.  All data 
> will 
> be there.
> 
> Time to courier a tape will be an issue.  Can you wait?  Any central backup 
> solution will have restore issues in either time for the courier to get 
> there, 
> or time for the data to get there over your slow link.

Duh, of course, they won't have tape drives there.  Time to purchase that DVD 
burner you've always wanted!  Or a lot of CDs  :)

Regards,
Ron.