Timothy:
Your boss's chances are better if he hires a drunk to drive him home
without wearing a seatbelt! If he sees no value in backing up his
company's data, IMO he is prima facie incompetent.
About 15 years ago I had a client who backed everything up to tape
nightly. Each morning he checked that the backup had completed, and saved
the tapes. But he had never tried the Restore function. :-( One day I
mistakenly typed ERASE *.DBF instead of ERASE *.BAK (yeah, I know!
<g>). He said "no problem", and fished out the latest backup tape. There
was nothing (nada, zip, etc.) on it! Turns out the drive was bad and
wasn't writing anything, even tho the process completed. I had a old
version on my test disk from a month previous. Took them a week to get
back all the orders and current manufacturing status.
They instituted a program of testing the tape restore after that. <g>
Dan Covill
At 16:10 09/30/03 -0400, Timothy Grahl wrote:
>Our tape drive that we used to backup up with got fried about a month
>ago, and I do not think I have been able to convince my boss how
>important and dire this is. Our company's entire foundation is built on
>our name and sales databases. Could I get some responses on why it is
>important to backup, and hear some horror stories of not backing up?
>Thanks!
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