Re: Secure backup?

If I recall correctly, not too long ago a network administrator brought down
the city of San Francisco's network.  This type of thing doesn't happen
often, but it does happen.  I agree with Mark's assessment that one has to
balance acceptable risk with acceptable cost.

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 12:46 PM, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Mark W. Farnham <mwf@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>   Nothing on God’s green earth can protect you completely if an “insane
>> actor” or a broken program makes small changes to production data
>> interspersed with valid transactions.
>>
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> It is interesting that at times so much time, effort and expense is
> consumed to prevent the technical folks from bringing down a company.
>
> Though not unheard of, it is rather uncommon for a technical person
> to put a company into a major crisis.
>
> That seems to be more the realm of executives and other business folk.
>
> CitiGroup, SmithBarney, CountryWide, WorldComm, ....
>
> Any DBA's or SA' responsible for those?
>
> Jared Still
> Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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Rumpi Gravenstein

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