I script and test as well. But sometimes you can't think of every possible problem.
My point wasn't to have a contest of who had worse problems or who had a problem that the other didn't. merely that sometimes hardware mirroring is not the be-all/end-all solution. We all could swap war stories for hours. But I need a beer before I start that, that's thirsty work :) --- Stephen Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > have you NEVER accidentally, at 3AM, after having been woken from a > > sound sleep to a crisis that needs to be fixed RIGHT NOW, > > made a typo? > > > > Actually no. But we usually script our actions and test the scripts > prior > to doing anything in production. As a sys admin, I've restored > enough > casualties of the "rm -rf *" command to be rather careful about it > myself. > > > Um, I have. > > I was wondering if anyone had. But I could turn this around too and > give an > example of when duplexing the redos failed to save me. One so-called > patch > that Compaq released for Tru64 actually caused disk writes to be > unreliable > (OH MY GOD!!). And we wound up with a G.D. mess in spite of the > redos being > duplexed all nice and official. > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Stephen Lee > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Rachel Carmichael INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
