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Troubleshooting: Power outages and hardware failure

Ensure that procedures are in place that provide continuous power in the event of a power outage or hardware failure. In the event of a power outage or hardware failure, transactions written to the log file are compromised and cannot be retrieved. If a backup process is running when the outage occurs, use your RDBMS tools to check the validity of the backup.