Today is not being a very good day for me
I was stressed going to work this morning
The job i am working on is a pure bollox
I was supposed to be BBQ’in tonight but the english have stolen our weather
Im not a happy camper.
To expand i am working on restoring a server that died. It has been replaced, and the retoration has actually gone quite well except for the fact that the data is 30 days old! a fellow engineer suggests that perhaps a retention period was enabled! We cannot check as the old server is FUBAR! I am not a happy camper
This really highlights the over complexity of backup softwares. The differences in terms let alone approaches between backup software is crazy. What seems to be completely intuitive in say Arc Serve flies in the face of say Backup Exec. Backups, along with printers remain my pet hates in the world of IT. The errors both areas produce are complex at the best, down right ancient sumarian at worst!
What are your options in this crazy world? Very few. Backups are an absolute requirement unless you want to go down the pan! So get to grips with your backup, and keep it up to date! and test it, oh lord test it. And keep a monthly backup offsite!
