Why use circular logging if they are backing up every night? I would turn
that off. Otherwise, if it works, you have pointed out the risks, and they
find this acceptable, then go with it...
Aaron
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From: Benjamin Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, August
YES!
Consider this - You have some sort of hardware problem that corrupts the
database. You learn about it because your backup fails one night. If
Circular Logging is not enabled, you can easily recover from this by
restoring your last good backup and allowing the logs to replay. If
circular
If they aren't already doing so, keeping the backup tapes offsite (the
president takes them home or something) can be an incredible lifesaver.
We saved a company from complete shutdown because we had an offsite
backup. The place burned down, my then-boss ran to Costco, grabbed a
higher-end
Read the disaster recovery whitepaper(s) for reasons why circular logging
might not be A Good Thing.
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/administration/55/Disaster.asp
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/techinfo/administration/55/BackupRestore.
asp
-Michèle
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(sorry - previous response was incomplete)
YES!
Consider this - You have some sort of hardware problem that corrupts the
database. You learn about it because your backup fails one night. If
Circular Logging is not enabled, you can easily recover from this by
restoring your last good backup
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Daniel Chenault wrote:
I thought that if you lost the logs, there was a procedure to at least
restore the data in the Stores? Yeah, you lose anything that wasn't
committed, of course, but can't you recover something?
Yes, there is. In my world of support, though, lost
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Tom Meunier wrote:
The assumption should have been that the logs are on separate spindles
from the IS, and it's less likely that you'd lose both at once.
Have you been following this thread? We have to fight these people just
to buy a tape drive. Multiple disks just
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Ryan, John wrote:
If they aren't already doing so, keeping the backup tapes offsite (the
president takes them home or something) can be an incredible lifesaver.
Indeed. What is more, the concept of an off-site copy is easy to
understand -- even the most non-technical of
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Waters, Jeff wrote:
Why use Circular Logging??
Does it make a difference? Our thinking is basically: Given the lack of
separate disks, and given a full backup every night, turning circular
logging off would not gain us anything. Given the principle of not making
changes
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Drewski wrote:
If you have circular logging, and then crash before your backup, you may
have overwritten log files from that morning -- and will be unable to
play them back and recover.
Are you talking about a soft crash? That is, the system goes down
(e.g., someone
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