I wonder where I can find a used IBM1402?
On 8/12/2013 1:18 AM, David Mann wrote:
On Aug 12, 2013, at 7:46 AM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote:
a few years ago i contracted at a large corpse where another department (on which my
department relied for file services) managed to obliterate a RAID array ("RAID is
safe, right?") and in the process discovered their (untested) backups were also
faulty … heads rolled; the situation i had been brought in to clean up (i am a software
janitor) was even more tenuous, but from the start i had advocated protective measures,
so i was made to seem very wise
I know a guy who used to work at Telecom. He once told me about a telephone
exchange that crapped itself and lost its data, so they went to restore from
backup.
The trouble is, they'd had a software update a couple of years previously that
had a bug which caused it to write corrupt data to the backup. So they had to
re-enter everything from paper records.
quite recently i took a retainer for improving a website and said one of the
first things i needed to do was confirm the site was properly backed up; i soon
got word from the previous contractor that he didn't think the backups were
working; the clients, while failing to give me any way to check the backups,
and thus making it impossible to set up a staging server, nonetheless insisted
i rush a major reconfiguration of the site; when the clients clearly didn't
understood nor accept the liability of this approach, i told them it wasn't
going to work and said goodbye
Very wise move. You have a good CYA plan :)
Cheers,
Dave
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