[FX.php List] Folder path?

[Dale Bengston]

To clarify: this thread is not about whether backups are stored on  
the internal drive. It's about where the live, hosted database files  
are stored.

On Apr 23, 2007, at 2:25 AM, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote:

> I have a philosophical problem with accepting internal HD as backup,
> for me backup is "same( at a certain timestamp ) data on a separate  
> device."
>
> Preforably not even in the same building, if I have one NAS in the
> home of 3 employees each and the backup routine was set up to move
> files to their homes respectively distrubuted throughout the day that
> would be a reasonable backup from my point of view.
>
> Backup on the same harddisk or some harddisk inside the same node,
> would be considered waste for me if the building burns down, however
> if the computer burns down, then an external harddisk would probably
> be good enough.
>
> ggt667
>
> On 4/23/07, Kevin Futter <kfutter at sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au> wrote:
>>
>>  On 23/4/07 4:05 PM, "Edward L. Ford" <elford at cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I don't have direct access to a FM Server or a reason to  
>> investigate this
>> for my own needs, but I'd thought I'd provide some of the thoughts  
>> I had
>> about this subject:
>>
>>  While not being able to specify where FMSA stores its db files  
>> seems odd,
>> maybe it is FMIs choice to limit where the files are stored for  
>> database
>> integrity reasons, as someone else already stated.
>>
>>
>>  It's not that you can't tell FMSA where you want to store your  
>> files – you
>> can – it's just that it appears it has to be on an internal drive,  
>> not a
>> removable one. I do agree with the stated reasoning for this  
>> though. We have
>> FMSA installed on the boot volume along with the OS, the databases  
>> stored on
>> a second internal drive, and their backups on a third. I believe  
>> you point
>> your backups happily at a removable drive though.
>>
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