Re: tasks of ORACLE DBA

Or worse yet (this just happened to me last week) finding out that your backup software (Legato) has lost it's catalog indexes. It can read the tapes, it just didn't know which tapes to read. Unfortunately, Legato never let us know that this was a problem since last October. Our SysAdmin had to rebuild the indexes somehow before restoring could take place.

Just my 3.14159265 cents worth,
Brian

Greg Kainz wrote:
>
> Sorry - backups are just wasted tape until they've been tested by a
> restoration... :-)
> "Uh, boss, we got backups up the wazoo, but none of them are readable!"
>
> "Roy Brokvam" <roy.brokvam_at_conax.com> wrote in message
> news:AiH66.269$k25.4158_at_news1.oke.nextra.no...
> > Some would say:
> >
> > 1. Backup
> > 2. Backup
> > 3. Backup
> > 4. All the other things
> >
> > :)
> >
> > --
> > Roy Brokvam
> >
> > Theory is when you know why it doesn't work.
> > Practice is when it works, but you don't know why.
> > We combine theory and practice;
> > It doesn't work, and we don't know why.
> >
> > ouaatchane76_at_my-deja.com wrote in message <93epg3$d8h$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>...
> > >HI,
> > >can anyone tell me what are DBA tasks.
> > >many thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
> > >Sent via Deja.com
> > >http://www.deja.com/
> >
> >
 

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