RE: 1 minutes: best downtime story
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:14:06 +0000
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Had a storage admin who took an online BCV backup and restored it to a live mission critical production system in the middle of the day causing database corruption and a downtime of several hours.
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Subject: Re: 1 minutes: best downtime story
Had a sysadmin with OCD who decided he wanted to rearrange the locations of Oracle home files and did so while databases were running.
On 3/14/2013 5:07 PM, Jeremy Schneider wrote:
> Hey all -
>
> I'm writing a paper about top causes of downtime. As one component
> of research, I'd like to get some input from you!
>
> One minute, two sentences. First sentence: describe what went down.
> Second sentence: describe why. (I have to categorize all of these.)
> Everyone should have at least one downtime story so I'm hoping for a
> lot of feedback!
>
> Answer about any technology - database, operating system, etc.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jeremy
>
>
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