A colleague once mentioned the garage he visited in a professional capacity. He asked about backup to be told that they did a tape backup every day. The young lady involved then mentioned that she kept getting an error message that she didn't understand so she ignored it. The message? 'Tape not formatted'.
John Weller 01380 723235 07976 393631 > All to common a scenario, I'm afraid. I worked at a place where this > happened(we lost irreplaceable data, however), and afterwards I kinda > had to take an IT manager role, and the first item on the agenda, of > course, was a "Backup AND RESTORE" strategy... Part of the strategy I > drafted ensured regular restore audits of different parts of the > backups, carried out by someone other than the person that did the > backup(usually with that person present). Sadly it never was carried > out as I had drafted it, but it was probably the best defensive > measure against such a disaster... > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
