From: Conor Daly (conor.daly at domain met.ie)
Date: Fri 24 Aug 2001 - 11:34:04 IST
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:24:24AM +0100 or thereabouts, Chris Higgins wrote:
> > I think it's something that *every* sysadmin should be programmed to do
> > (randomly) once in a root shell. The idea behind this is that, at some
> > stage in your career, you'll do it so let's get it over with early and then
> > you can forget about it.
>
> Not only will you get over it once, and learn not to do it again - but it
> should also nail into the back of your head the absolute importance of
> backups... just so when a junior admin goes through his/her initiation..
> you can smile knowingly and wisely.. generating that aura of 'unix god'..
>
> And then pull out the backup tape, restore the files (remembering the
> syntax to restore without having to read man pages) and sit there for
> a week watching to see how much effort they put into doing the backups.
>
> On that topic - how many people actually keep historical copies of backups ?
> Is everyone just rolling over tapes, or do people run a grandfather/father/son
> pattern with the occasional 'grandfather' tape being put into a 'keep forever'
> stack. (just curious)
Since we don't trust tapes here for more than about two uses, we do have
something of the kind in operation here. It's just that the "keep forever"
stack is a small metal box that gets emptied every night by the cleaners :-)
Conor
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