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It's not possible to restore from backup when the transaction is between your bank and a different bank. You might restore from backup, but the other bank won'
by ars 7y ago
It's not possible to restore from backup when the transaction is between your bank and a different bank.
You might restore from backup, but the other bank won't.
The issues here are far more complex than just keeping track of the current balance: a first year CS student could do that part.
- mcny 7y agoWait. I don’t understand. If you have the opening balance and have all the transaction logs, what are you missing? I don’t see why it shouldn’t be possible to feed data to both the new system and the old system for a while...
- jyounker 7y agoBut that requires forethought, planning, and a dedication to testing.
- Forge36 7y agoFrom the article it appears even the naive first year approach would have significantly reduced the scope of the problem.
- LoSboccacc 7y agoBanks handle balance discrepancies all the time all day long, all operations that cross a bank boundary are subject to reconciliation further down the line, with massive expert systems handling most of the obvious cases automatically and operators handling the flagged transactions