David Morrison wrote:
> >-- usefulness of back-ups
> >
> In our case, the purpose of the backup is to be able to restore the
> system after a catastrophe, eg, disk failure, serious database
> corruption, or fire in the computer room. In this case, we are more
> interested in saving several years of work, even though we may lose
> the last few hours.
Yes - this is obviously the main reason for keeping them.
> As far as retrieving material from individual courses, it may not be
> too difficult if you have a complete backup of the Blackboard data
> files. In our case, we are able to run up Blackboard on another
> machine using the files from the backup. The problem course can be
> exported, then imported again into the production system. So this
> allows restoration of a whole course.
Doh - I hadn't thought of that.
We may have to do this if we can't find an alternative.
Thanks David.
cheers,
ben
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