Yawn...I got paged this morning at 2:30 AM because a database
backup failed. It turned out the backup partition was unmounted,
with the intention of being replaced with a new one.
Unfortunately, I wasn't aware that this was being done, otherwise
I would have made sure the new volume was available and
configured for our backup system -- 5 minute job. All in all, not
a big deal. Everything was made good and a successful backup was
done.
But, I think this event is a symptom of a common problem in the
IT world: Configuration problems due to an unintentional lack
of communication between well meaning teams.
The IT group I work in is really no different than most others.
We have UNIX administrators, NT administrators, data managers,
software developers, me starring as the DBA, and of course, the
operations folks who try to keep things running in the middle of
the night so we can sleep.
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