On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:19:18 +0700 Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
[snip] > > > Sounds like you need a SAN Storage solution like NetApp or HDS :-) > > > > I have those options too. But the team that runs the SAN charges and > > the rates are not cheap. > > > > Yeah, tell me about it. > > The day after we got our first NetApp array, the Finance Director > demanded to know how we were going to recoup the cost >.< > > Then the next week, the company got its bacon saved when the > production database got corrupted. We quickly mount the previous > hour's snapshot, and averted an off day. Suddenly, the NetApp array > became the company's most valuable asset. > > (Reading BOFH indeed opened up my team's unlimited resource of > creativity ;-) ) Ah, bean counters. Those fellows have an annoying habit of asking: "Please tell me why I must spend a trifling amount of money (in comparison to my own wages) on something that protects our major asset?" I have found that cron and at provides the way to demonstrate exactly why one must spend that money. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
