[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: From HP-UX to Redhat

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Windows, rather than Linux, but I've had bad experiences with VM snapshots too. Server chewed up by ransomware including the backups. Customer restored a snapshot. Database was hosed. We got about 95% of it back with some creativity, but that's 95% of a database that was already hours out of date. And there was no easy way of telling which data was missing. And it took around 2 days of outage to get there as well. Moral of the story: Robust backup strategy using probkup, AI archiving, and getting it all off the database server ASAP is the only way to ensure your data is safe and current post disaster.

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