On Sun, 09 May 2004, kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net
wrote:
> Galen, We have development instances and keep our scripts under
> version control. (that's standard good practice) We do delete
> our archive logs, but we do it like this: cron job that gzips
> the archive logs (except the most recent one) at least 1 per
> day. At least once per day we back them up to tape. Then we
> delete any archive logs that are older than 3 days. (since they
> are on tape 3 times at this point) We make sure we have plenty
> of disk space for archive logs - well over the 3 day on disk
> set. So if someone needed an archive log over three days old
> we would be able to get it unless 3 separate tapes were bad.
Yes, this is something like I would expect. These guys straight
deleted them without moving them to tape, all on our production
instance.
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Galen Boyer
Received on Sun May 09 2004 - 14:19:04 CDT
