Gail,

Many (somewhat belated) thanks for your response.

Unfortunately I won't convince anyone where I work on recoverability grounds.

We are in the extremely luxurious position of being able to take an extended outage of up to 2 weeks. The content of almost all our databases is rebuilt from a base set of data; the results are published to an external provider where they can be called off via a web application. If that doesn't get updated for a couple of weeks, most users won't care.

Thanks again

Otto Schreibke