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Re: Looking For Direction

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From	"Patricia Shanahan" <patricia.shanahan@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
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JC wrote:
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> The equipment at the lab is antiquated. I would say the server is pushing
> twenty years old.  The network O/S is an unsupported version of Netware (5.0
> I think). The version of Oracle, also unsupported, is 8.0.1 and came free
> when they did the Netware upgrade eleven years ago. Although we do nightly
> backups I have to say I probably wouldn't know what to do should a restore
> be needed.
...

The backup issue seems *very* serious to me, something you should fix
ASAP regardless of any changes to anything else. If you do not know what
do to if a restore is needed, you are presumably not testing your
backups by doing restores. How do you *know* your backups are working?

I have seen very serious problems in a situation in which everyone
thought some files were being backed up, and didn't find out there was a
problem in the back up process until the files were lost in a disk failure.

Patricia

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