[Info-vax] One wonders why people bet their companies on Microsoft based products...

[JF Mezei]

Paul.Raulerson wrote:
> <amusement> Physically move the drive from a PC to a SAN?  Must be a tiny
> little SAN. That would not work with say, my Shark, which requires drives to
> be installed in 8 packs. :)

Then you devise another strategy.

People shouldn't just assume they can make a disk copy
and be down for so many hours. (or inthe case of Tmobile, lose peopple's
data).

They could have written a program/script where they would immediatly
switch production to the new SAN, so new messages would be received and
made availabel on the SAn right away, and then have the script copy i
dividual user,s old mail files progressively to the corresponding
mailfile on the SAN to repopulate their mail archives. You would have to
advise customers that their mail archives may be offline for a few days,
but that they would return, and that their new mail would be available
right away.

My point being is that some system manager devised a plan to copy the
whole mail files in one shot without having tested and evaluated how
long it would take and as a result, they were down for a very long
period of time, amd thjey had not warned their users because their
original though this would only take 30 minutes to do. And I feel this
is very typical "windows weenie" mentality.