put it this way... it took them roughly 12 hours just to rehome the PlayOnline Data recently. That's just the player signin, licensing, messages and such. Now, conswider there are 25 Game servers that house all your character information, as well as all the data for the game, and the front-end for the game itself. That's just two of the key pieces in the chain. It doesn't account for various other servers used to cover various tasks for supporting the service. Some of those support tasks were likely split up into diffrerent regional locations simply for efficiency sake of day to day operations.

It's not going to be as simple as popping a tape in an e-mail server for an automatic scheduled backup that runs each night at 8pm.

Raist