{"id":41,"date":"2010-04-12T06:42:53","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T11:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/?p=41"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:04:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:04:39","slug":"common-oracle-mistakes-small-businesses-make-mistake-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Common Oracle mistakes small businesses make \u2013 mistake #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mistake #4: Not recover-testing your backups<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a critical deficiency, and it is very common.&nbsp; And, to be truthful, this mistake is not unique to smaller Oracle shops.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been to some larger Oracle shops that also skimp on recovery testing, but I find this to be more common in the smaller shops where resources tend to be spread more thinly.<\/p>\n<p>Disasters happen every day.&nbsp; Even to well-run companies.&nbsp; In the blink of an eye, you could lose it all.&nbsp; Hardware failures, human error, sabotage, natural disasters \u2013 no shop can afford to feel immune to these threats.&nbsp; They are real; they are hellish; and I have the sad client stories to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>Can you recover from a disaster?&nbsp; Just because your backup returned a normal completion code or didn&#8217;t throw any errors, does that mean can you recover your database?&nbsp; Just because your recovery strategy worked last quarter, does that mean it works now?&nbsp; Is life in the IT arena really that simple?&nbsp; (I wish it were.)<\/p>\n<p>If you aren\u2019t testing your backups, what is the reason?&nbsp; Will that reason seem important in retrospect, if you can\u2019t get your data back when you need it?<\/p>\n<p>Wow, re-reading this entry, I realize that it sounds preachy, almost accusatory.&nbsp; But I feel passionate about this issue.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve seen the proverbial wailing and gnashing of teeth when it becomes clear that a complete recovery of a failed production database is not possible.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t want this to happen to any of my clients, and, from a purely selfish perspective, I don&#8217;t want to witness such desperation again.&nbsp; It&#8217;s disturbing.<\/p>\n<p>Can you look your manager in the eye and tell him you are proud of your recovery testing strategy?&nbsp; Can we help you with your strategy?&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/company.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This link<\/a> will take you to our site, where you can contact us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mistake #4: Not recover-testing your backups<\/p>\n<p>This is a critical deficiency, and it is very common.&nbsp; And, to be truthful, this mistake is not unique to smaller Oracle shops.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve been to some larger Oracle shops that also skimp on recovery testing, but I find this to be more common in the smaller shops where [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oracle","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}