Tag: failed backup

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 […]

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 […]