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To: Lorianne

Database corruption is not the same thing as a computer crash.
Corruption can mean that records were updated incorrectly for years, and that the data is invalid and unusable. If that is true, then all backups are invalid too.

That is not a crash.


25 posted on 06/15/2016 8:12:54 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam mandates warfare against unbelievers and is absolutely incompatible with Western society.)
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Thank you. That is the logical explanation. It just seems that they would be periodically checking their data for accuracy.


29 posted on 06/15/2016 8:15:12 AM PDT by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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Corruption can mean that records were updated incorrectly for years, and that the data is invalid and unusable. If that is true, then all backups are invalid too.

Very good point. If the corruption has been ongoing and they have not been doing integrity checks of the data being saved, then yes all the backups may contain crap too.

30 posted on 06/15/2016 8:15:18 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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that’s a good point, however still suspicious


46 posted on 06/15/2016 8:26:09 AM PDT by Lorianne
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Ideally the back-up is rotated to become the active file and the backed-up file is stored. Then if there is corruption in the back-up (now active) file, it will be known immediately and corrected.


55 posted on 06/15/2016 8:45:48 AM PDT by BigOrangeI (When did we run out of tar and feathers ??)
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