Re: Secure backup?

From: Rumpi Gravenstein <rgravens_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:05:47 -0400
Message-ID: <9c9b9dc90904291205q4171e776n553276cf1ff17387_at_mail.gmail.com>

If I recall correctly, not too long ago a network administrator brought down the city of San Francisco's network. This type of thing doesn't happen often, but it does happen. I agree with Mark's assessment that one has to balance acceptable risk with acceptable cost.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Jared Still <jkstill_at_gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com> wrote:
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>> Nothing on God’s green earth can protect you completely if an “insane
>> actor” or a broken program makes small changes to production data
>> interspersed with valid transactions.
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> It is interesting that at times so much time, effort and expense is
> consumed to prevent the technical folks from bringing down a company.
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> Though not unheard of, it is rather uncommon for a technical person
> to put a company into a major crisis.
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> That seems to be more the realm of executives and other business folk.
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> CitiGroup, SmithBarney, CountryWide, WorldComm, ....
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> Any DBA's or SA' responsible for those?
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> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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