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Rose, Billy wrote:

> 
> My company can tolerate 0% loss of data (which is why I raised this issue).
> 


There is no such thing as 0% loss of data.  You can get some amount of 
security with backups, snapshots (really useful!) or undelete, but you 
can *NEVER* guarantee 0% loss of data... consider the case when a 
(l)user overwrites (not just deletes) a newly created file.

	-hpa


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