filepro and saving data

[Walter Vaughan]

Richard D. Williams wrote:

> 
> What is the limitation/downside of doing a back-up, rsync, or any other 
> attempt to reduce the data lose window between back-ups on an active 
> filepro system with remote users?
> 
> Are there any suggestions on how to maintain to duplicate linked filepro 
> system?

I'm really not trying to sound like a *utt-head, but you really have to define 
what *you* mean by data loss.

A RAD5 array with spares would handle multiple drive failures.

What about someone
	$ cd ../appl/filepro
	$ cat /dev/null > */key

...that's loss of data. And if you had an automatic sync, it then the backup 
would have nothing as well. So you need snapshots as well.

<whine>
These are things that are automatic in professional grade databases. However, 
since the excellent tools that fpTech supplies for creating Rapid Applications 
are tied to a single proprietary database, you have to do it all by hand.
</whine>

Is money still no object? <grin>

--
Walter