"Galen Boyer" <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com> wrote in message
news:uisf5h0me.fsf_at_standardandpoors.com...
> 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.
>
> --
> Galen Boyer
They should be fired. Clearly incompetent.
Jim
Received on Sun May 09 2004 - 17:18:40 CDT
