Originally Posted by Philip Springer
This is a great idea, but only if you have at least two separate, disconnected NAS backups. The reason is that while your primary NAS backup is connected, a simple administration error could easily wipe out both your main data as well as your primary backup. (For example, several times I have copied the backup to the main drive, rather than the other way around).A friend of mine blogged about it recently:http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/database-soup/a-san-is-not-a-highavailability-solution-47644?rss=1
If you have a secondary backup that is not connected ("air gap") then you are protected from yourself. (I would argue that you need at least several miles of distance between backups, too.)
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