> The whole backup process is automated, but I start the script manually
> because we're short on disk space and I prefer to keep an eye on it.
I'm confident Jimbo would consider adding diskspace a minor investement,
provided we don't use anything fancy (raid, SCSI) (Jimbo am I right?).
I guess bandwidth costs are the main expense and several orders of
magnitude larger.
I know that 18 days without a backup is a rare event, but even losing 6
days of edits, uploads and discussions would give me the shivers. Are
they stored on a different disk by the way? If backup is a matter of
minutes per database, then the benefits of a scheduled daily outage far
exceed the costs, it will even save some bandwidth ;)
Backups are an inconvenience until you need them.
Erik Zachte