I have NO sympathy whatsoever. I long ago learned to back up anything I'm going to work on before I touch it. "Long ago" as in ... high school, during my first programming class.
I'm also unsympathetic because a substantial portion of my job involves creating and implementing backup/restore systems for customers ... most of whom fight me on the need for such a system every step of the way.
("Can't we just copy everything to another hard drive?" "NO!")
There's a laissez-faire attitude about backups in recent years that's just been driving me up the wall. People assume that what works for a home machine (doing an image backup to a CD, DVD, or USB external disk drive) will work just fine for a corporate system. Unfortunately, those methods don't scale up adequately for business needs.
Don't think I won't use this article in my remaining sessions here at BrainShare. I'm co-teaching a session on "Preventing Server Crashes" tomorrow morning, and I will be CERTAIN to quote this story under "User Error" as a cause of crashes and data loss.
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Date: 2007-03-21 12:09 am (UTC)I'm also unsympathetic because a substantial portion of my job involves creating and implementing backup/restore systems for customers ... most of whom fight me on the need for such a system every step of the way.
("Can't we just copy everything to another hard drive?" "NO!")
There's a laissez-faire attitude about backups in recent years that's just been driving me up the wall. People assume that what works for a home machine (doing an image backup to a CD, DVD, or USB external disk drive) will work just fine for a corporate system. Unfortunately, those methods don't scale up adequately for business needs.
Don't think I won't use this article in my remaining sessions here at BrainShare. I'm co-teaching a session on "Preventing Server Crashes" tomorrow morning, and I will be CERTAIN to quote this story under "User Error" as a cause of crashes and data loss.
Thank you!
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Date: 2007-03-21 12:41 pm (UTC)