Hey Bill:
Sounds as if you have "DRILLED" them!
; > )
Ramiro
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001 11:22:39 -0400 "Bill Ehlert" <Ehlerts@SoftHome.net>
writes:
> Kevin,
>
> Backup of the OS and programs to CD is fine. They don't change every
> day.
> Just make it easy for non-technical people to use when you are not
> around.
> Create scripts that will work reliably for you and your operators to
> backup,
> verify, and restore.
>
> Now for the scary part. Restore.
>
> Years ago, I worked with a UNIX system that made 8 mm tape backups
> every day
> and pushed one for monthly archive. On Friday the 13th, it happened,
> our
> hard drive crashed and we had to restore. It was a disaster.
> Installing new
> drive and getting it online took hours and then the nightmare
> began... Tapes
> were unreadable or so full of errors that they were unusable. They
> reused 10
> tapes for backups over three years and never added new or replaced
> worn
> tapes. They never verified the tapes or tested a restore.
>
> What made it even worst was, no one had done a restore before.
> People who
> created the restore had left the company and did not answer pleas
> for help.
> It was a very bad scene. It took them Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
> to piece
> the system back together. They were lucky that the drive died Friday
> and
> they lost only that business day.
>
> Moral of this "war story" is if you use a media, verify it and
> refresh old
> or warn items with new. Test the restore procedure before you need
> them -
> don't assume it will work, because it won't. Take the time to plan
> and
> execute restores with as many workers as you can standing by. Let
> them all
> learn how to restore and understand what has to be done and when.
> This is
> your insurance when some of them move on or leave you.
>
> At the dentist office we have 5 people trained on restore
> procedures. Even
> the dentist understands the procedure and has tested it at home.
>
> Bill
>
> From: "Kevin Fogleman" <snotr0cket@home.com>
>
> > Ah, I can see where I was wrong in this. When I was suggesting
> using a CD
> > burner, at the time I was thinking about what we were going to be
> doing at
> > the office, namely just burning the OS and all the config files
> and such
> > onto CD so that it could be instantly restored in the event of a
> disk
> > failure, without the office people knowing how to use Linux.
> >
> > They (allegedly) do a tape backup of all the critical files over
> the
> > network every day on one of the workstations that has a tape
> drive. Then
> > they lock the tapes (again, allegedly. The woman who is supposed
> to do
> > this is the same one who just yanked the plug out of her computer
> to turn
> > it off before I showed her the "off" button) in a fire-proof safe
> and keep
> > 'em for a week. I don't think they've ever had to do a restore
> with them,
> > so I have no idea how reliable this actually is.
> > --
> > --Kevin Fogleman
>
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