Oopsy.
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'Not Fade Away'
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sumi - Mar 20, 2007 8:42:06 am PDT #941 of 25496
Art Crawl!!!
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2007 8:52:32 am PDT #942 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Jesus fuckers. There are protocols, people! And wouldn't that be covered by some sort of regulatory board that would audit and make sure shit is backed up properly, above and beyond the department itself?
The technician is in hot water, but everyone above him in the org chart should be slapped around severely too.
Theodosia - Mar 20, 2007 8:57:36 am PDT #943 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
ita, that's from the state with the Senator who believes that the Internets are a series of tubes.
But yeah, damn sure there are protocols, and good reasons not to skip on them.
DXMachina - Mar 20, 2007 9:08:33 am PDT #944 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
At least they had their hard copies.
There are protocols, people! And wouldn't that be covered by some sort of regulatory board that would audit and make sure shit is backed up properly, above and beyond the department itself?
According to department staff, they now have a proven and regularly tested backup and restore procedure.
The technician is in hot water, but everyone above him in the org chart should be slapped around severely too.
Former Revenue Commissioner Bill Corbus said no one was ever blamed for the incident.
"Everybody felt very bad about it and we all learned a lesson. There was no witch hunt," Corbus said.
Governments jobs are the best...
§ ita § - Mar 20, 2007 9:15:39 am PDT #945 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
they now have a proven and regularly tested backup and restore procedure.
It's 2007. Now they have one? Hopefully this'll prompt other groups to test their disaster recovery procedure.
At my last job, every system owner was required to test both disaster recovery and business continuity for not just data but business processes. So if hard copy it was, you had to show the process for resuming business that way too. Once a year. Because the Feds could come looking at any time.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
flea - Mar 20, 2007 9:17:53 am PDT #946 of 25496
information libertarian
At my job, in a University library, we had a hardware failure and then discovered that the backup procedure had failed and nobody had noticed. We lost 6 weeks of work by ca. 120 people. Nobody was fired. I was pretty shocked.
amych - Mar 20, 2007 9:23:14 am PDT #947 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
At my job, in a University library, we had a hardware failure and then discovered that the backup procedure had failed and nobody had noticed.
Was that the day I happened to see you first thing and you said "THEY DELETED THE CATALOG!", or was there some other 6-weeks-of-work disaster that I missed?
flea - Mar 20, 2007 9:27:47 am PDT #948 of 25496
information libertarian
No, just the one time. So far. September 11, 2004, and we're still fixing problems from it.
DCJensen - Mar 20, 2007 9:31:00 am PDT #949 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
I was surprised by the question they didn't address was "did they even bother to send the formatted drives to a recovery service?"
Sure they got people in there from Microsoft and Dell, but how about Ontrack?
tommyrot - Mar 20, 2007 10:00:33 am PDT #950 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, WinXP client, Win2003 (I think - maybe 2000) server - is there a simple way to tell from the client machine if a file on the server is locked, and what type of locking it is? I mean, I know you do those things with API calls, but absent that, can you tell?
eta: I suppose attempting to rename a file would tell you if there's any sort of lock, right?