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[B]Here is a story.
There was a bank in New York City, its IT staff backed up database to tapes and transported tapes to a basement several blocks away. The backup plan was tested, whole database can be restored from tapes. No Problem! One day, the bank had server crash, the database needed to be restore back to 30 days.
Strange thing happend, DBAs can only be able to restore database ack to 14 days. After intensive investigation they found that the basement was near a underground railway tunnel. Every time when a train passed by it generated electro-magnetic disturbance and demagnetized the tapes, therefore erased data.
The morale of the story: It is not enought that you back up database , you must make sure that you can restore database from backups under most stringent condition. [/B]