Ross Davey wrote: > > > >> Horst Herb wrote: >> >>> http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/03/22/1174153207365.html >>> >> >> They had recent backup tapes, but they were unreadable. The lesson is: >> >> Backup! >> >> Then do a test restore (often!)! >> >> ( >> > Test restores danger point in themselves. I have known sites that have > overwriten their live running system with the restore and thus lost > data. Shouldnt happen but it does.
Test restores should only ever be done on a separate "test" system, which is quite separate from the production system. Of course having a test system starts to get expensive, license-wise, if you are using MS-Windows servers and MS SQL Server etc. With Linux the cost of a test system is just a few hundred dollars for a second low-end PC, or you can even dual-boot workstation as a test server. With the arrival of virtualisation, you don't even need a second physical machine. Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
