ckeller 10913 (5/9/2014)
...So I believe the business user should play a role in the backup process and not simply rely on the dba. That may mean learning to backup and restore data yourself so you can see the restored data and test it thoroughly to make sure the data looks okay.
Totally agree. I also note that you actually test the data restored whereas some others appear to assume that a successful restore implies that the data is valid. That is not something that I would want to leave to chance or to a technician without intimate knowledge of the data. I would hope that data validation would occur with at least a sample of backups just to check that the process is continually working as appears.
Gaz
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