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Re: Looking For Direction

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On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 06:17:52 -0700, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
wrote:

>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
What she said.  It is a conceptual error to call it a "backup", it is
better called a "restore".  If you cannot restore it successfully then
it is useless to you.  You have to test that the restore actually
works.

rossum

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