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!
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• 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.McMullin AT cbc-companies DOT 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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