{"id":43,"date":"2010-04-16T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T15:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/?p=43"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:03:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T18:03:38","slug":"common-oracle-mistakes-small-businesses-make-mistake-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Common Oracle mistakes small businesses make \u2013 mistake #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mistake #5: Not keeping your backups in well-chosen and varied locations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Texas is a big place, and one geographically disparate enough to have a large variety of natural disasters.&nbsp; We have tornadoes, hurricanes, brush fires, and floods.&nbsp; We even had a tiny earthquake in the Dallas area a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We also have the normal variety of non-natural threats: thieves, saboteurs, arsonists, leaky roofs, power surges.&nbsp;&nbsp; Add that to the threats inherent to an IT infrastructure: human error, hardware failures, hackers, software bugs.&nbsp; Those are a lot of threats.&nbsp; What&#8217;s an IT guy\/gal to do?<\/p>\n<p>Make backups as often as your data loss\/recovery time strategy dictates.<\/p>\n<p>Either make the backups to a different server\/disk pool than the database, or quickly copy them to a different location once the backup is complete.<\/p>\n<p>If the secondary location isn&#8217;t offsite, get a copy offsite as soon as you can.&nbsp; The time period within which backups are required to have offsite copies should be governed by how much data you can afford to lose in a site disaster.&nbsp; (More about \u201caffordability\u201d, next time.)<\/p>\n<p>Be prepared for localized and whole-site disasters.&nbsp; You and your end users have worked hard to make your databases the valuable information stores they are today, and you owe yourselves (and them) no less.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mistake #5: Not keeping your backups in well-chosen and varied locations<\/p>\n<p>Texas is a big place, and one geographically disparate enough to have a large variety of natural disasters.&nbsp; We have tornadoes, hurricanes, brush fires, and floods.&nbsp; We even had a tiny earthquake in the Dallas area a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p>We also have [&#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-43","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\/43","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=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mcneelytech.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}