Originally Posted by
B2N2
For crying out loud! Exactly this subcontractor company's "engineers" two years ago needed diskspace for a task in the huge bank I mentioned earlier. They found a directory containing a lot of files named arch<blabla>.log . Thinking these are just left over log files they deleted them w/o talking to the grown ups.
But it was the transactions logs of database which are pivotal for being able to recover the database in case of media failures.
Luckily one of us overpair european dinosaurs discovered that mess and took counter action.
One would think management immediately cancelled that subcontract and employed a couple more local pros, being thankfor "lesson learned w/o damage".
But we all can guess who still is allowed and payed to mess with central, business critical banking databases.
Too cheap to get rid of, seems to be management's motto.