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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?
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.
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?
No, just the one time. So far. September 11, 2004, and we're still fixing problems from it.
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?
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?
Does a $4,000 celebrity grill count as Technology? Sure, why not! [link]
Ha! The other kind would have been even funnier.
I totally thought mouth-grill too. And then was a little surprised a $4K one would be noteworthy. Oh, how sad.
