I respectfully disagree in all respects. - Refusing to get a database backed up until management hires a DBA could be a "resume generating event". - Like it or not, the questioner appears to be the Oracle DBA, albeit one very early in his DBA career and learning on his own! - [redacted] - Someone using NetBackup for as long as the questioner knows that a successful backup is not the same as being able to restore or meet expectations for recovery. - My post started with and ended with, essentially, "you need a DBA". - My intended perspective was that if management leaves the DBA job to the questioner, then a little high level knowledge will let him focus on getting the database protected at an appropriate level as quickly as possible. - What I wrote may be right or wrong, the perspective may be right or wrong for various circumstances, but for how I read this circumstance, the comment is off-base and helpful only in giving me pause before again "helping" in this forum. If this was the commenter's purpose, it worked. - If the commenter wrote "Wayne" when he meant the questioner ... never mind.
Wayne NetBackup administrator Oracle database administrator thin-skinned today, apparently On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:56 AM, David McMullin < david.mcmul...@cbc-companies.com> wrote, in part: > Wayne - You are looking at this from the wrong perspective. > > You need to be concerned about RESTORING your data. > It does not matter how 'successful' your backups are if you cannot restore > the data. > > IMHO you really need to get a DBA or 'someone' to sign off on your backup > procedure, as well as test your restore, otherwise you are setting yourself > up for a "resume generating event"... > ... >
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