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Old 04-08-2008, 11:16 AM
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Default Re: Tough question for oracle DBAs/Solaris Admins. Log shipping.

Karen Hill wrote:
> We know that Oracle and SUN/Solaris go together quite well on high end
> installs. To insure an audit trail for BASEL , HIPPA, Sarbanes Ox and
> other federal laws, one can ship oracle logs to an offsite server.
> Yet, how can this guarentee an audit trail, when Solaris does not
> support immutable files? Immutable files are files where not even root
> can change/delete/move a file set as immutable.
>


I don't believe immutable files will be sufficient for SEC 17a-4 rules.
You typically implement this at the storage level.

It would still be a good idea to implement this in ZFS/UFS though

Pete
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