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blufire21
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« on: December 10, 2002, 04:23:59 pm » |
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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
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chevygirl55
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« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2002, 01:46:48 pm » |
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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
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