[geeks] On the job stuff...

[Dave Kimmel]

On Fri, 31 May 2002, Andrew Weiss wrote:

> What does everyone do in production... obviously it would be silly to
> take backups even in the middle of the night if you have to bring the
> machine down.

Well, what a lot of UniData people seem to like to do is use a 3-way
mirror.  The typical backup plan is pause the database and wait for writes
to finish, break one disk off of the mirror, resume the database, mount
the disk that was broken off and back that up, then unmount it and put it
back into the mirror.

It should be easy enough to do with DiskSuite.

-- Dave Kimmel
   crisco_kid at shaw.ca