Re: Data Erased-- Please help

Raj wrote: > > Hi, > Almost everyone suggested that I restore using backup from a tape. > That was plan and i called the full time employee asking if he had the > backup. He said they do. I guess I should had made a backup myself using > dbexport. The tape backup is a file system backup. Developers made a cron > job to run everynight asking it to backup the informix deirectory. But > someone changed the path of the root-dbs onto a seperate partiton from the > informix directory as the system developers intended. As far as system > administrator, I wear that cap too. Guess I am really screwed, for trusting > my boss, full time employess and developers. > Raj. > P.S:- I know this is not the type of stuff that is posted on this > newsgroup, but I needed a place to vent my anger and frustation. Thanks for > reading this and sorry for taking up your time. > Try this: Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong. What it was I could not say. Now all my data's gone and I long for yesterday-ay-ay-ay. Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away. I knew my data was all here to stay, Now I believe in yesterday. HTH and Best regards, Mladen