Re: Long running backups - OK?
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 12:50:17 -0500
Message-ID: <1ab192e2-af37-486d-3ce4-62f5ed2dffdb_at_gmail.com>
That is not entirely true. Some laws (SOX, HIPPA, PCI, Murphy) mandate 7
years of data backups. They do not mandate the ability to restore.
Theoretically, you can have a 7 years old 9i rman backup of your
database at the time and that is fine. Nobody mandates that you need to
have a 9i instance to restore it to. So, if the regulators, and that's
where the Murphy's law comes into play, do an inspection of your IT, you
need to show them 7 years of backups. Nobody will ask you if you can
actually restore those backups. That is how backups can be important.
On 01/26/2018 02:00 PM, Glenn Travis wrote:
> Any question about backups should really be converted into a question
> on restore and recovery, because backups don't matter,
> restore/recovery from those backups matters.
-- Mladen Gogala Database Consultant Tel: (347) 321-1217 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Sat Jan 27 2018 - 18:50:17 CET