On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 10:30:22PM -0500, Robert Brockway wrote:

I've been thinking about a talk on backup best practice for TLUG. I went in to this a little at the end of my optimization[1] talk but have we had anything else like this recently?

We could go from the sublime to the ridiculous and give a pair of talks. (Each listener could choose which was sublime and which ridiculous.) I could describe the technical aspects of EMC hardware and software. That includes high end storage systems capable of: - accomodating and routing around communication failures in a storage network - transparently maintaining multiple copies of live data, both local and remote - transparently making point in time copies of live data, again either locally or remotely I could also provide some info about the complications that can occur when you try to copy data that includes live databases - there are a number of ways that you can end up with errors or problems unless you take special care. -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml