Re: [Firebird-devel] Firebird Transaction ID limit solution

[Lester C. <le...@ls...>]

Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>> 02.01.2012 14:46, Jesus Garcia wrote:
>>> >>  he problem is not downtime is how much downtime. Backup and restore is so much downtime.
>> >
>> >       Not more downtime that simple restore after complete server destruction by flood or
>> >  plane crash.
> Could you stop with the absurd comparisons? One is normal maintenance
> and the other is (extreme) disaster recovery which are in no way comparable.

And if you have a decent recovery setup, then you simply switch to a remote 
backup machine, which allows as much time as you like for repairs! Taking users 
offline for a period of time is simply not practical in a lot of cases, so we 
need to be able to manage how things are handled during any maintenance cycle.

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