I’ve been having a lot of these kinds of days… its a little cool out but bright and sunny around 55 degrees.  We went out for some really good indian food at a punjabi restaurant at Inman square.  It was a very good time and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

I’ve been putting the finishing touches on the first, and for me, the most difficult part of my backup strategy.  That is, getting SAP and Oracle to cooperate in automatically producing backup files on a regular basis.  I think that works just fine now and I’m happy with it.  The trick now is to get it on to tape.  That’s an area I am wholly unfamiliar with.  I’ve always relied on someone else to manage the process of getting these files off to tape.  My employer has someone who is in charge of the enterprise backups, but apparently usually only gets 90% of his job right, which isn’t enough for me.  If I loose half my database, the whole thing is useless.  So now someone is urging me to put together (and take responsibility for) my own SAP tape backup solution.  I am hesitant to do that for a couple of reasons:

1. It will produce bad blood with the incompetent who currently has the responsibility
2. It really is in my employer’s best interest to have a cohesive enterprise backup solution and not have a different tape/server for each application.

So I am inclined to help the guy who is currently responsible for it to improve how he does things for the whole company.  Its a bigger and less pleasant task, but I think its the better more comprehensive way to go.

On another note, Liz and I are going out to eat this evening and will probably scope out a new picnic table and maybe some other shopping.  We have a baby sitter all lined up for 5pm and I’m sure we’ll be out until 9-ish or so.

I promised Liz I would devote Saturday to soccer and gardening/landscaping.  So we’re going to be cleaning the backyard and making everything look good.  I have to go to Lowe’s and return some tiles and purchas some mulch.  And I think we might try to get a new magnolia tree for the backyard.

Ben and Gabe have a soccer game on Saturday.  Sunday is open, but the weather is scheduled to be cold and rainy.  So I don’t know what we’ll do then.

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