No News Might Be Bad News, Here’s How to Keep An Eye On Your Cloud Servers
May 20,
2013
Last week I told you how someone had a bad scare when they realized that a backup job had failed for almost a year, but they didn’t realize this because the error reports were not being relayed to a responsible person. Here’s how to fix this! In any Unix-family operating system, like the Linux systems […]
Don’t Ignore Your Cloud Servers, Because No News Might Be Bad News
May 9,
2013
One of my consulting clients made a disturbing discovery last month. This happened in-house, it would have been even more likely in the cloud. One machine holds an Oracle database and some other crucial files. They set up a scheduled job to backup the database and those files at 3 AM every work day: Signal […]