I am appalled that I am the only responder to this article on DR. I did not blow it off, but rather put it in my "read later" file. Since it was posted, I accidentally discovered that the media my most important client was using on Wednesday and Friday was defective in such a manner as to NOT raise an alarm, but the backups would FAIL! ! !
I discovered this my a total fluke ! ! !
I had never re-tested restoring after I had set up the backup/restore procedure 9 months ago on this Linux system.
I would like to point out to my fellow professionals, that I am guilty of what was mentioned in this article.
I thought I had learned during the 2003 Northeast Power Grid Blackout that I should be more careful -- I had the old, not the new Servers plugged into the UPS when all of NY went dark !!!
I felt like an ass until I discovered that the reason the nation saw tourists sleeping on the street in Times Square is that every hotel (those I heard of) did not have a UPS system backing up the electronic room key systems! Imagine, pay $200+ dollars to sleep with the bums because there was no power to A) the server running key verification B) the actual door reader mechanisms -- what a ROYAL SCREW-UP !
Anyway, I have learned my lesson -- you others are in the queue !
