I can't emphasize this one enough - it is a huge mistake to
rely on your tape/media/netbackup admins to set your tape backup retention
correctly.
I've been told too many times to count that "Yes, the
Yearly backup with 7-yr retention was completed successfully" only to check
myself (with the bpclimagelist command for Netbackup) and find that the backup
was really saved with the regular 35-day retention! The problem is that if
you don't double check this and it's wrong - you'll never know until you get
audited or for whatever reason need that backup years down the road and you find
that it has mysteriously disappeared. So, I make it a point to personally
verify every single backup that I need saved with a non-default retention
time.
Regards,
Brandon
I would like hear from you about the common mistakes by most of the DBAs do
regarding the backup and recovery
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