Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!transit3.readnews.com!news-out.news.tds.net!newsreading01.news.tds.net!86597e80!not-for-mail From: "Patricia Shanahan" Subject: Re: Looking For Direction Message-ID: X-Comment-To: alt.comp.lang.java,comp.l Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.databases In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=IBM437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Gateway: time.synchro.net [Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92] Lines: 26 Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 15:23:34 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 96.60.20.240 X-Complaints-To: news@tds.net X-Trace: newsreading01.news.tds.net 1303917814 96.60.20.240 (Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:23:34 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:23:34 CDT Organization: TDS.net Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.databases:414 To: alt.comp.lang.java,comp.l JC wrote: ... > 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 --- * Synchronet * The Whitehouse BBS --- whitehouse.hulds.com --- check it out free usenet! --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.92 Time Warp of the Future BBS - telnet://time.synchro.net:24