Re: testing recovery

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:20:35 -0700

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:11 PM, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> While I agree that the use of restore validate is a good practice, I would
> strongly disagree that it takes the place of actual restore testing. This is
> true with respect to DR or non-DR.
>
> I say this for several reasons:
>
>
To summarize this it appears you are saying the following:

1) restore validate proves you have a good backup
2) restoring the backup proves that you can restore it if needed.


Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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