agarzotto wrote:

> But what would you do so that a database can be recovered if there is
> a nightly backup, the database is on a RAID and suddenly you find out
> that the RAID-controller has gone wild and all copies on all mirrored
> disks are the same mess? Is there a way to cope with that other than
> losing everything since last night (e.g. we lose the information that
> we charged your credit card this morning and will thus charge it again
> ;-) ? A DB replicator would replicate the mess, wouldn't it?

That is certainly the way I would be going for financial information.
Duplicate machines rather than bothering with duplicate backup's.

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