[geeks] On the job stuff...

Andrew Weiss ajwdsp at cloud9.net
Fri May 31 10:55:51 CDT 2002


Hmmm so in UNIX if you break a mirror it's seven years of good luck. :-)

Andrew

On Friday, May 31, 2002, at 11:49 AM, Dave Kimmel wrote:

> 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
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