Re: Tough question for oracle DBAs/Solaris Admins. Log shipping.

From: Ningi <ningi_at_EGGSANDSPAMblueyonder.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 20:45:05 GMT
Message-ID: <lZ0Kg.12229$r61.10894@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>

Karen Hill wrote:
> We know that Oracle and SUN/Solaris go together quite well on high end
> installs. To insure an audit trail for BASEL , HIPPA, Sarbanes Ox and
> other federal laws, one can ship oracle logs to an offsite server.
> Yet, how can this guarentee an audit trail, when Solaris does not
> support immutable files? Immutable files are files where not even root
> can change/delete/move a file set as immutable.
>

I don't believe immutable files will be sufficient for SEC 17a-4 rules. You typically implement this at the storage level.

It would still be a good idea to implement this in ZFS/UFS though

Pete Received on Fri Sep 01 2006 - 15:45:05 CDT