Wow, no UPS and auto-shutdown? Or the UPS batteries (or UPS units themselves) have not been changed out every 2 years or so to prevent loss of reserve capacity? Yikes! No transaction log file to record changes? Double yikes!
Lessons sometimes need to be relearned by ownership and management in order to spark a little preventive investment. How many times I have heard business owners say (in so many words), "We don't get power outages very often. I do not think I want to get a battery backup, sounds like a waste of money for the few times we used to lose power." For one client in S California I actually went out and paid for a nice UPS and external hard drive for a client out of my own pocket. Why? If he loses data, and renders my software useless, I lose my revenue stream. So to help ensure I keep getting $560/month recurring license fees I invested about $350 (tax deductible, so really only about $200). It has paid off, as he has had no fewer than 3 power outages since that time, and not one bit of data loss occurred. I rag him every time I see him about the "poor investment" I made on his behalf. Gil -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of John Weller Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 11:25 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Grid value send to Excel I have lost several records from an open table when we had a power failure. Unfortunately they were records of foreign exchange deals worth several billion US dollars; fortunately the traders could remember the details of the trades including the rates to 4 decimal places! What made matters worse was the fact that the mirroring software the bank used was so efficient it had mirrored the corrupt database before we could do anything <g>. Such is life! John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > > > To my experience the only problem with data is the cdx can get > damaged and a > pack/reindex solves that > Allen > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
