57 Days of Forward Recovery: A DBA's Worst Nightmare And How To Minimize The Risk

by Daniel Beaty

57 days of forward recovery. If you work in IT then you know what a nightmare that is for a Database Administrator. Just the mention of it makes my skin crawl. This is what we had to go through to recover the billing system's database when the server crashed. This was because the backup admin did NOT retire the tapes properly. This knowledge isn't widely known, even in the IT community. He didn't know that tapes are aged NOT by date/time/stamp but by the number of mounts that a tape goes through. Tape is a flexible medium and deteriorates every time you mount the tape in a drive. It gets stretched across the read/write head and that stretching eventually creates a weak point that the drive cannot read past no matter how hard you try. Chances are, your data is on the other side of that stretch point.

This book is about Tape Backup Systems Management. System Administrators(SA;s) know how to install backup software and they can configure it to make copies of data on the tapes. I was thrown into the role of Backup Admin. I've made mistakes configuring backups and learned the hard way that I shouldn't have done some things. The saying goes, "Just because you CAN do something does NOT mean you should". This book is how I WOULD configure a backup system to ensure I can restore data with the fewest issues. These configuration practices I'm about to share will help you recover data as quickly and efficiently as possible. This knowledge will prove itself Priceless.

20 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 22, 2023

About the author

Daniel Koa Beaty is a visionary actor, singer, writer, and social entrepreneur who lives at the intersection of art, spirit, and social change. Raised in Dayton, Ohio, Daniel grew up the child of a heroin addicted, incarcerated father, and younger sibling to a brother addicted to crack cocaine. Daniel learned early on that the arts can help heal childhood trauma, transform pain into power, and inspire a new generation of change makers to dismantle the systemic racism and oppression at the core of the challenges Daniel, his father, brother, and so many Americans face.

Daniel Koa Beaty has spent his life telling stories that share both the truth of who we are as people and his hope for a better world. He believes these stories have the power to move us and inspire us, as individuals and as a society, to transform ourselves and the world: to confront our pain, imagine a better world, and work together to achieve it. Daniel has developed an awarding winning body of work that includes his plays Through the Night, Emergency, Mr. Joy, and The Tallest Tree in the Forest – Paul Robeson. These works have been performed at venues ranging from maximum security prisons to The Public Theater, Lincoln Center and White House. He has garnered numerous awards including an Obie award for writing and performance and five NAACP Theater Awards. A highly requested performer and keynote speaker, Daniel has worked throughout the U.S., Europe, and Africa. In these turbulent times of social change facing the nation, Daniel has continued to develop work that confronts, heals and nurtures us all.