Oracle Backup Failure

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Oracle Backup Failure Major Factor In American Eagle 8-Day Crash
It seems a failure in an Oracle backup utility coupled with the failure of IBM hosting managers to detect it and to verify that a disaster recovery site was operational were the key factors in turning a standard site outage at American Eagle Outfitters into an 8-day-long disaster, according to an IT source involved in the probe.