RE: What are the common mistakes DBA do retarding backup & Recovery?

I can't emphasize this one enough - it is a huge mistake to rely on your tape/media/netbackup admins to set your tape backup retention correctly.  

I've been told too many times to count that "Yes, the Yearly backup with 7-yr retention was completed successfully" only to check myself (with the bpclimagelist command for Netbackup) and find that the backup was really saved with the regular 35-day retention! The problem is that if you don't double check this and it's wrong - you'll never know until you get audited or for whatever reason need that backup years down the road and you find that it has mysteriously disappeared. So, I make it a point to personally verify every single backup that I need saved with a non-default retention time.  

Regards,
Brandon

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Syed Jaffar Hussain  

I would like hear from you about the common mistakes by most of the DBAs do regarding the backup and recovery

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