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Re: Is it Veritas or is it smoke and mirrors? again

From: Daniel Fink <daniel.fink_at_sun.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:44:23 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005C7D78.20030730074423@fatcity.com>


> Michael Kline wrote:
>
> There seems to be some big confusion if Veritas is
> working or not...

snip...

> Recovery has NEVER been tested.
>
>
> Michael Alan Kline, Sr.
> Principal Consultant
> Business to Business Solutions, LLC
> Phone: 804-744-1545 Cell: 804-314-6262
> ICQ: 1009605, 975313
> Email: mkline_at_b2bsol.com Web: www.b2bsol.com
>

The two are related. If recovery has never been properly tested, you don't know if your backups (veritas, rman, ksh/sql scripts) are working. Period. End of story. I've encountered enough software/hardware problems to not trust that an 'error free' backup will be recoverable.

If the database is not being taken down, or tablespaces are not being put into backup mode, or RMAN is not being used, I'd suspect that none of the backups are recoverable.

Daniel "The DBA's job is not to backup the database, but to recover it." Fink


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