-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/15/06 09:47, Jim Nasby wrote: > On Nov 14, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Paul Silveira wrote: [snip] > Rule 2 is needed to ensure that the data files in the database are all > consistent to each other. If you have a SAN/filesystem with snapshot > capability (sounds like you do), then you can do that to create the copy > rather than shutting the database down. How does SAN-snapshot ensure transactional consistency? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFW217S9HxQb37XmcRAocuAKCBvrpXWQrNeAEaFQ7UqXZxj0NPnwCfbbYP 9sPsnMb0uYqyPonOOFKVR6U= =IL6Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----