Backups

[John Abreau]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Samuel Baldwin <shardz4217-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> 2009/2/11 Dan Ritter <dsr-mzpnVDyJpH4k7aNtvndDlA at public.gmane.org>:
>> What is your maximum allowable period of unsaved data? (i.e.,
>> how often do you need to copy new data over to the backup?)
>
> Unknown at this time. Probably... monthly?


Monthly? If the server crashes the day before backups, and you lose
29 days' of data, that's acceptable?

Monthly makes sense for archiving, where you're permanently preserving
a snapshot in time, but that's a long time to go between backups.


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