I rounded... it was actually something like 6:04AM :)
--- Thomas Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 6 AM --- A new shift comes on. Or is that when the janitor shows up > and > needs a place to plug in his vacuum cleaner? > > I am always suspicious of hardware/system failures that fall right on > the > hour. > > I once had an Oracle database on an AIX system. Every morning, when > I came > in, it was just starting up. Turns out that the SA like to have a > "clean" > system so at the start of his shift he would hit the RESET button on > his > RS/6000. No warning or notification, no graceful shutdown, just > punch the > big red button. > > He also thought that backing up the entire database once a week would > take > too long so he would back up one RAID device every other day. With > three > RAID devices that gave him a weekly backup. > > I finally got him educated but he didn't pass it on to his subs. He > was in > Jamaica (mon) for a week when we had a power outage. The UPS worked > and we > were able to keep going but two days later we lost all the files on > our > RAID devices. They located him in Jamaica, flew him back, he walked > into > the computer run, flipped the switch on the RAID devices' UPS, and > they > flew him back to Jamaica. His sub had reset the computer's UPS but > had > ignored that blinking red light over in the corner. > > > > > > Rachel > > Carmichael To: Multiple > recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > <wisernet100 cc: > > @yahoo.com> Subject: RE: corrupted > block > Sent by: root > > > > > > 02/27/2003 10:10 > > AM > > Please respond > > to ORACLE-L > > > > > > > > > > it's not a hardware problem. the fact that the filesystem failed at > 6AM > this morning is merely a collective hallucination > > yes, it went down hard. My database was not on it, I had insisted > they > move all the files. They didn't move the Oracle binaries though > ("there > is no hardware problem") so we are down anyway, while they reinstall > Oracle to a different filesystem > > I'm getting tired of recovering this database. Over and over and over > again. I've got this recovery scenario down pat, let's move on to a > new > one to try > > > --- Stephen Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > > Of course, we took the EXACT SAME BACKUP, restored it to another > > > filesystem and have NO corruption in the database. But it can't > > > possibly be hardware problems. It's just Oracle playing games > with > > my > > > mind. > > >-------------------------------------- > > > > Sunspots. > > > > > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > > -- > > Author: Stephen Lee > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting > services > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > also send the HELP command for other information (like > subscribing). > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! 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