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> > I've started expanding the Admin chapter on database recovery (expanding
> > was easy; it has been "Any volunteers to write this?" for two or three
> > years now). At the moment, I've split the info into two chapters on
> > "Failure" (discussing various failure scenarios) and "Recovery".
> Seems like that should be only one chapter.

Yes, maybe. Easy enough to merge back together. I split them because
there is not a one to one correspondence between potential failures and
recovery procedures.

                - Thomas