Comments on: Restore the latest database backup automatically and xp_dirtree http://www.siusic.com/wphchen/restore-the-latest-database-backup-automatically-and-xp_dirtree-324.html Random thoughts and news by Andrew Chen and friends Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:51:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Robert Kostecki http://www.siusic.com/wphchen/restore-the-latest-database-backup-automatically-and-xp_dirtree-324.html#comment-72911 Robert Kostecki Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:58:55 +0000 http://www.siusic.com/wphchen/?p=324#comment-72911 Hi Andrew, Looks good to me and providing that your environment is not of huge importance and pretty much “static” and you as DBA are happy to maintain such solution it should be fine. If however your environment changes you may find out that the procedure does not work anymore as expected and you may end up with “undocumented” and “unsupported” by the vendor solution. If this happens to be a multimillion system the questions will be raised and you will be the only one to blame (I’ve seen it before). I have seen some articles describing issues on some operating systems (2008, 2003 EE R2?) where the procedure does not return file with archive bit cleared. Thanks, Rob K Hi Andrew,
Looks good to me and providing that your environment is not of huge importance and pretty much “static” and you as DBA are happy to maintain such solution it should be fine. If however your environment changes you may find out that the procedure does not work anymore as expected and you may end up with “undocumented” and “unsupported” by the vendor solution. If this happens to be a multimillion system the questions will be raised and you will be the only one to blame (I’ve seen it before). I have seen some articles describing issues on some operating systems (2008, 2003 EE R2?) where the procedure does not return file with archive bit cleared.

Thanks,
Rob K

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