[dba-Tech] Security measures

For what its worth a strategy I have employed is to use RAID IDE (mirroring) drives, use 3 drives, make two of them cold swappable,
and at intervals swap the drives and copy the image to the "new" drive"
Should all hell break loose you reinstall the old drive, and update and run off that one, and resume copying from there.
It is very cost effective, although not tested in the sense of being really needed.  Still I like these things happening on my
terms.  LOL
Kind regards,
David
Engines2Go - Now THAT's a Search Engine!
Automated major search engine manager
Makes searching quicker and easier - Have you tried it?
http://www.engines2go.com/
http://www.cheqsoft.com/  The home of Clipboard Express, MP3 Detective, TimesOwn and Break Reminder.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven W. Erbach" <serbach at new.rr.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures


Francisco,

>> It's quite a bit
easier this way cuz you can just take your corrupted OS dump the image
on it placing you back before the patch was installed. <<

And that's where I thought a cloned drive would be simpler yet. Granted, you
don't have multiple image backups. But for ease of get-up-and-go, a cloned
drive wins hands down, I'd say.

Thanks for the extra details about OE. Very persuasive arguments.

Regards,

Steve Erbach
Scientific Marketing
Neenah, WI

If architects built buildings the way programmers built applications, the
first woodpecker to come along would cause the end of civilization.


_______________________________________________
dba-Tech mailing list
dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com
http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech
Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com