Tao Of Backup Wailing Wall Story

Always MAKE SURE you're getting every filesystem!

(names removed to protect the innocent)

I was in charge of backups at a university department. I was backing up 150 unix machines, approximately 350 filesystems. However, one slipped through the cracks. It happened to contain a Professor's home directory, containing his research for the past two years. Needless to say, that particular disk failed.

Sending the disk to a data recovery specialist produced nothing. The platters were damaged beyond recovery, and there was no hope.

Most of his work was duplicated in his student's directories (which were being backed up), but his email and personal files were completely gone.


     AnonymousAnonymous
    Anonymous, USA, Tue 24-Mar-1998 3:54pm

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