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