Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on DB online backups

Cant even remember what you wrote dave as I deleted it ! 

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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on DB online backups

Wayne - you are right - I totally misread the message thread, my
comments were addressed to the original questioner. 
Your comments were an excellent summation of the options to backup the
data.

My comments were basically meant to indicate that how you want to
restore the data, and where, will direct your backup plan. Also, the
hardware and application limitations impact it.

Mea culpa


Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:37:00 -0400
From: Wayne T Smith <WTSmith AT maine DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Question on DB online backups (Wayne T
        Smith)
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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


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