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Subject: RE: SCSI Bus redundancy...
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> ----------
> From: 	Karl Denninger[SMTP:karl@mcs.net]
> 
> 
> > I wrote a white paper at Oracle some years ago, claiming that
> databases
> > over a certain size simply cannot be backed up.  I became very
> UN-popular
> > very quickly.  In you moderate setup, you already see the proof of
> > corectness.
> 
> Correct.  I consider any "regular" filesystem with more than 4G of
> data on
> 
Databases are not regular filesystems. They have little number of
big files.

> it to be unrestorable, simply because there isn't enough time to do
> the
> restore and not get skewered.  
> 
Save it to tape as an image of logical disk. Restore it in the same
way. With things like OnlineJFS you can even do save it online.

-SB

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