>Sounds like some of my customer's. No backup either i guess?? Speaking of backing up data, I have a customer who had a tape backup system installed (not by me, unfortunately) to speed up the nightly process. Well one day about a year later her system crashed and corrupted tables. She called me for assistance in doing a tape restore. Nothing on the tape. I asked her how she did the backup. "We leave the tape in all the time." The short version is she assumed that whatever they did during the day "automatically migrated" to the tape. They did not have the scheduler activated nor did they manually use the tape drive software to initiate backups.
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>I guess it's kind of like putting your biology book under your pillow the night before the big exam and hoping the theory of "learning by osmosis" really works.

ROFL :-))

I had a client who wanted me to run her backups - even though I had never physically been in her office. I was to log in every day (after 11pm, please) and run the backup via PCAnywhere.