At 08:11 PM 3/02/2006, Alex Peshkov wrote:

>A number of our clients work with NFS-based shadows, and statistic is
>the following. There were approximately about 9 power-failures analyzed
>during 3 years, and in 4 cases main database was broken up to being
>unrecoverable with gfix/backup/restore process. Shadow has always been
>health. Therefore if we can guarantee safe write order over MS network,
>I don't see big problems having such shadows.

Alex, I'm curious: how does activation work when the shadow is
actually required after a HDD disaster? Does it mean you have to
configure RemoteFileOpenAbility to be allowed at all times?

Helen