Am 2006-07-06 19:25:38, schrieb Ron Johnson: > SQL was used 20 years ago, why not 20 years from now? > > I can't see needing data from 10 years ago, but you never know. I have a Database (currently around 370 GByte of historical data, exactly the last 14600 years, but most from the last 100 years) and I want to read the backups in 20 or 30 years too... Same for the 3,4 TByte of binary data (original docs, mp3, wav, ...) So I am running into the same trouble, finding a realy good backup starategy. Oh yes, since my MAIN table of the history was exploded with around 95% of the database size, I have split them up into 10 years... which can easyly backuped as text/plain dump. But now I have problems doing searches with "tsearch2" in over 1000 tables. Greetings Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator Tamay Dogan Network Debian GNU/Linux Consultant -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org/ ##################### Debian GNU/Linux Consultant ##################### Michelle Konzack Apt. 917 ICQ #328449886 50, rue de Soultz MSM LinuxMichi 0033/6/61925193 67100 Strasbourg/France IRC #Debian (irc.icq.com)