It’s always a bit scary when someone asks you to recover really important data from a week or two ago.  Did the backup run that day successfully?  Did it copy to tape successfully?  (We do disk to disk to tape backup)  Will the restore work?

A little over a week ago, our membership people found about 13,000 “Unassociated” records in the Shelby database.  Under Shelby’s guidance, I did a database backup and we deleted the orphaned records.  Shelby assured us it wouldn’t affect any “good” records.

Well, here we are a week later and apparently a few people are missing, so I’m uploading the current backup and the backup before the pruning so that they can figure out how to restore the deleted people.  Unreliable software is really annoying and Shelby is moving higher and higher up my “Unreliable List.”