AbsKerneels wrote: >TRUE story..
>We lost the main IMS database , with all the information of all the people >that needed to "klaar out".. .or move on , with their normal lives.. because >they forced some of us, to donate two years of our lives to military service >or to defend our country because the communists was about to invade or take >over.. or so we were told, on a daily/weekly basis. >The DBA manager at the time ? Ray Russel Unfamiliar name for me. That is way before I even started worked. I never smelled/seen/touched IMS db. >Why did we lose the Database? Because of pointer errors and none of the >database backups were actually working. They ran daily/weekly/monthly but >nobody actually checked that they actually completed successfully. It was not >important in those days, to check return codes. Stupid *ssholes. Same happened about 2-4 years ago. Some *sshole put in a tape for his/her/it Unix backups, never checked that the backups are *working* and *usable*. >What then happened ? >We worked the whole weekend, non stop, writing assembler programs to manually >try and fix pointer errors, on the broken files, etc. etc. Good messy war story. For above Unix backups, there were NOTHING to restore at all. Not my problem. ;-) >I am digressing... You may. I will not stop you. ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
