Re: Running on an NFS Mounted Directory

Yes, your right, I meant not have to do the backups from the db server
itself. I can do that within the storage device now, by allocating space
for it, and letting the device copy the data files on some periodic basis.

On 4/27/06 9:05 AM, "Bruno Wolff III" <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:57:51 -0400,
> Ketema Harris <ketema(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> performance from the db. I also would hopefully then not have to do
>> periodic backups from the db server to some other type of storage. Is this
>> not a good idea? How bad of a performance hit are we talking about? Also,
>
> You always need to do backups if you care about your data. What if someone
> accidental deletes a lot of data? What if someone blows up your data
> center (or there is a flood)?