| Title: | system management communications forum |
| Moderator: | CHEST::THOMPSON |
| Created: | Fri Mar 21 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jul 08 1993 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 490 |
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I believe there was a disk problem on FUTURS over the week-end, resulting in the loss of all work on DISK$DATA1 last Friday. This is the second time in two/three weeks that we've lost a days work on FUTURS. Can some-one tell me what the backup schedule is for CURRNT and FUTURS? Colin.
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| 468.1 | SBPEXE::OTTEN | You are stuck in a maze of conflicting standards | Tue Apr 07 1992 10:33 | 20 | |
The following are scheduled dates for evening backups for
the coming month, the machines will be shut down at 17:30
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x 13/APR/92 x MONDAY x FUTURS (4) x
x 14/APR/92 x TUESDAY x PASTIT (3) x
x 21/APR/92 x TUESDAY x CURRNT (2) x
x 27/APR/92 x MONDAY x FUTURS (6) x
x 28/APR/92 x TUESDAY x PASTIT (5) x
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| 468.2 | Here's the way it works..... | HEWIE::RUSSELL | Vote early and vote often! | Fri Apr 10 1992 10:32 | 26 |
Colin, we do full backups once a fortnight, and incrementals on a daily basis. So, we do a backup on Monday morning to TA90 of everything modified since the previous Thursday. In this case, the disk went out to lunch on Saturday Morning..... On one level, we were lucky that Field Service were in that day (working on a different system), and the engineer realised we had this fault. Although he would have been quite entitled to go home, (as he wasn't on site to look at FUTURS), he replaced the HDA that day. This allowed Ops to restore the Thursday night backup quickly on Monday morning, and so minimise downtime. Unfortunately it is a fact of life that hardware does break from time to time. We balance the cost of recovery against the cost of prevention. At the moment, it isn't considered cost-effective to shadow all of our disks. If you can come up with a justification, I'd be glad to hear it, as I haven't been able to yet.... Peter. | |||||