[FX.php List] Folder path?

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

FMSA made a folder for that already, and that should be ok for everybody,
but the folder they made for backup is just crazy.

ggt667

On 4/23/07, Dale Bengston <dbengston at preservationstudio.com> wrote:
> 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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