Recovery testing queries

From: O'Neill, Sean <Sean.ONeill_at_organon.ie>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2000 10:24:56 +0200
Message-Id: <10527.108861@fatcity.com>

Hi Folks,

I'd appreciate feedback from any of you DBA folks as to 1 - What scenarios do you actually "test" recovery from, given that there are quite a number of possibilites =:-0
2 - What checks you perform against test recovery. 3 - Frequency at which you perform the various recovery test types.

Our Oracle DB's are part of 3rd party products and have a GUI front end. I don't know what data is in what tables, I don't know how to use the applications. We have application managers that look after each application, i.e. user traing, menu options etc and basically anything that can be controlled and configured from within the application itself. So if a database is recovered I'm depending on the application managers saying "yep, the data is up-to-date and correct". Do you folks know your data and applications?. How does any else out there in a similar situation test their recovery procedures?

Regards,
Sean :)

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The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 03:24:56 CDT