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I'd put that on the DBAs. Once a week they should have been pulling down backups and testing for problems. They'd have also discovered the problem with the back
by foobar1962 7y ago
I'd put that on the DBAs. Once a week they should have been pulling down backups and testing for problems. They'd have also discovered the problem with the backups themselves.
- flukus 7y ago90+% of the good use cases for filemaker are at places with no DBA's, it's meant to be a database tool for non-technical people and small businesses. If you had DBA's they'd just want to lock it down and eliminate the remaining 10% anyway.
- goatlover 7y agoStill, someone should have been checking the backups on a regular basis, because anything can fail.
- foobar1962 7y agoIf a company is claiming to have the largest database in the Southern Hemisphere, they'd have in-house developers (who double as FM dbas). I'd be interested in knowing who the company was, and the metric they used to judge their database size. I worked on one that was 4GB data and >40GB binary files (photos, documents). Interestingly, when all the data was removed and the file was optimised it came to less than 2MB.