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Title: Today's Shark Tank Post by: blufire21 on December 10, 2002, 04:23:59 pm Veteran pilot fish hires on as IT director for an online services
company. He's only hours into the job when he begins reviewing IT department policies and procedures -- and it's not a pretty picture. "They appear to be either chaotic or nonexistent," fish says. When he gets to the backup and restore procedures, he learns that a full backup is run every evening. "So how often do you perform a test recovery?" fish asks a sysadmin. "Never," says the surprised sysadmin. "Why do you ask?" Shocked pilot fish asks, "Then how do you know a backup tape can be read and can be used for a restore?" Sysadmin shrugs. "It takes 12 to 14 hours to write a backup tape set," he replies. "We don't have time to READ them, too." Ellen in TX Title: Re: Today's Shark Tank Post by: chevygirl55 on December 11, 2002, 01:46:48 pm This happened to me! My hard drive died. IT got me a new computer. Tried to restore from the back up tapes and it was unreadale. That is bad enough but almost a year later we are still using the same back up tapes and procedure and no one is checking to see if the back ups are usable.
Go Figure??!!! chevygirl55 |