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=============================================================================== Robb Kambic Unidata Program Center Software Engineer III Univ. Corp for Atmospheric Research address@hidden WWW: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/ =============================================================================== ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 1999 15:59:16 -0600 (MDT) From: Steve Carson <address@hidden> To: Robb Kambic <address@hidden> Subject: Re: failover site for mop1.eos.ucar.edu According to Robb Kambic: > > Steve, > > Since you are a UCAR site, you don't need a failover because the only way > you will not receive data is if there is a network failure. Also, any data > that you missed should be available from dataproc or the mass store. > > Robb... Robb; Thanks for the info. I thought maybe that's why no one assigned me a failover in the first place, but I wanted to be sure. Also, when Tom Yoksas was up here helping me one day I mentioned that we had no failover site and he thought that was odd. But I'll take your word for it - in this case simpler *is* better. Steve ---------------------------------------------------------------- Steven G. Carson NCAR/ACD voice: (303) 497-2916 Software Engineer II PO Box 3000 fax: (303) 497-2920 MOPITT Program Boulder, CO 80307 email: address@hidden ----------------------------------------- radio: W0SGC -------