Re: Deletion of archive logs.

Galen Boyer wrote:

> Get this. At 8am, I finish deploying our app to production,
> inclusive of data loads. (Up until this point, we have performed
> our data loading in QA and exported the data to production). At
> 12:30, I recieve an FYI that our DBA team can't bring up our
> Disaster Recovery site because a script deleted some of the
> archive logs from the production site while my team was
> performing their latest deployment. They would have to hotbackup
> production and then bring that over to DR and bring it up from
> that. So, after a few "WTF" emails, I find out that that top
> database administration manager for my entire company (and this
> is a really large multinational data-centric company) authorized
> this script. His statement was, "We don't want Oracle to hang,
> so our script deletes archive logs and then sends an email to the
> DBA team so they can do hotbackups and also restore the DR
> sites".

Like I say: everybody rises to his own level of incompetency. Please read his/her where appropiate.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel