[Info-vax] Databases versus RMS

[David Froble]

Paul Sture wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:11:02 -0400, JF Mezei wrote:
> 
>> Having to buy a new disk array because SQL servers can't access the
>> files when the system manager can see them is puzzling. (and one wonders
>> how he will be able to move the databases to the new disk array).
> 
> Lack of backups, or perhaps lack of testing that backups can be restored 
> in a reasonable time frame?
> 
> A forum I used to read went down for several days a few years ago, all as 
> the result of MySQL running out of disk space.  The guy running the forum 
> was technically knowledgeable, but he simply didn't have the in depth 
> experience as a DBA to recover.  Fortunately a forum member who did have 
> that in depth experience was available to help, and only a small amount 
> of data was lost.
> 
> Oh, the guy didn't have any tape backups because he "didn't trust tape 
> backups".
> 

It's hard to trust something you didn't do ....