[FX.php List] [Off] Not a valid path - for scheduled backups

[Bob Patin]

Here in my company, we backup this way:

a) hourly to the internal drive
b) 5-10 minutes later, a shell script copies and archives that backup  
to a 2nd internal drive
c) at the same time, the script also shoots this ZIP file over to  
another machine in the network

In addition, we have a 2nd backup scheme that happens nightly; it does  
the same 3 steps. We then take those daily ZIP files from the network  
machine and write them to DVD-Rs. So at any given moment, we have  
hourly backups on 2 hard drives, plus dailies on 3 different hard  
drives, one of which is on a physically separate machine.

We get around this limitation that way, so it's not a huge issue for  
us. I was really put out though when I discovered that I couldn't use  
an external drive with FMSA 8.

Bob Patin
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On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:41 PM, Bob Patin wrote:

> I don't know; I'm just repeating what I heard at Devcon.
>
> If I remember correctly, their argument was that an external drive  
> could be detached by accident. I'm not saying I agree with this (I  
> certainly don't), but that's what I seem to recall.
>
> I do a lot of digital recording, as does almost every recording  
> studio here in Nashville, and we all use external drives for  
> recording. Digital recording requires a fast, stable connection, yet  
> it doesn't seem to be an issue here at all. I'm at a loss to explain  
> why FMI has decreed that external drives are not to be used for  
> backup devices.
>
> Bob Patin
> Longterm Solutions
> bob at longtermsolutions.com
> 615-333-6858
> http://www.longtermsolutions.com
> Member of FileMaker Business Alliance and FileMaker TechNet
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>  CONTACT US VIA INSTANT MESSAGING:
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>
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> On Nov 20, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Troy Meyers wrote:
>
>> Bob,
>>
>> I heard that network drives weren't supposed to be, but why on  
>> earth would an external drive not be supported? That seems  
>> ludicrous. You don't want the backup in a machine that burns up....
>>
>> -Troy
>>
>>
>>> I thought that FMI had stated that an external drive was not
>>> *supposed* to work as a backup location?
>>>
>>> This was discussed at Devcon, and I seem to recall hearing that it's
>>> not a scheme that FMI says should be used, and isn't supported.
>>>
>>> Someone correct me if I'm wrong here... ?
>>
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