barasawa9144

Yeah, there are always "issues". Some common backup failures I've seen is places that only keep one or two, or they keep reusing the same tapes over and over, not realizing those things are only reliable for a couple of reuses, and never seem to test the backups. The worst situation I ran into was 9/11. A good 2/3rds of our support people just didn't come in for the week after that, and those of us who did had a really weird week. Turns out a LOT of comp

Did a lot of tech support on various levels, and this is a perfect example of the first three rules of computing. Rule 1: Backup Rule 2: BACKUP Rule 3: See Rules 1 & 2 Additional advice, have multiple backups, including something offsite, you never know what will happen, and things can happen to entire buildings or more... Now for the stupid story from when I worked tech support for a particular company :) Took the next cal