Hello Grant,

> Yes - I get your point Martijn, but you need to put your self in our
> shoes for a minute.
>
> We have made the move to FB and then we start to see a number of
> corruption issues on the list.
>
> Makes us a bit nervous about putting it into a production DB on a
> clients site.
>
> Whilst we as programmers can understand the issues involved, a client
> that just lost a couple of days worth of data and has had his new DB
> system that he paid a lot of money for will not understand the issues
> involved very well indeed. In fact the tend to become quite upset over
> such things.

I know, I know ...

Luckily, these things don't happen a lot. Especially not with the right
OS, hardware and UPS and so on.

Of course, one needs a decent backup plan as well.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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