Re: Backup & Recovery Procedures

I don't think Milosevic already has nuclear weapons. Saddam Hussein may have some.
As for the 'old' enemies, we have to fear more of rusty submarines I am afraid.
Personally, I am working for a consultancy firm. My experience is customers just simply trust their backups and *never* test them. I'm not joking. There are some major companies among them. Remember that Dutch company that wanted to merge with British Airways? The Development department didn't even have a backup when I worked there.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

"Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote in message news:8r1h62$ijq$1_at_soap.pipex.net...
> Ho often do folk actually run a test of their backup & recovery
 procedures -
> not to mention disaster recovery plan? Also what scenarios do people
 test.
> I have my own plans & ideas but what I'm after is some sort of
 professional
> consensus as to what is an adequately tested backup & recovery strategy -
> cos you can be sure that you asked when something goes wrong - why didn't
> you test what would happen if a nuclear device were detonated over your
> place of work?
>
> --
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission UK
>
>
Received on Fri Sep 29 2000 - 06:08:16 CDT