On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:00:50AM -0600, Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > Of course if it's really that important, you'll probably > be set up with RAID and other stuff, I'd hope. That's basically my thought. For something as transient as a mail spool, it seems like it would make a lot more sense to just mirror/ RAID it and not bother with backups. Sure, you lose 700 email messages if the whole thing dies and it's not backed up, but, OTOH, if it dies 2 hours after the backup runs, those 700 messages will be duplicated and you'll still lose the 700 that are in the spool at the time of the crash. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss