| daftykins | goooood morning gang | 06:34 |
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| zxmpi | o/ | 06:53 |
| daftykins | ok first comedy of the day, a client i've been telling off about doing their backups wrong | 07:33 |
| daftykins | quick refresher, the jobs run at midnight on the 1st and 15th of the month, so the drives need to be plugged in prior to that day - but what they were doing is just swapping them over so they sat there idle for 2 weeks | 07:33 |
| daftykins | failure email came in at the weekend as the drive was absent (lol) | 07:34 |
| daftykins | "How do I do the back up please? I did as you said and took both backup tapes home, so the 15th landed on the weekend hence it didn’t work, I have now come and plugged the tape in just not sure how I do the backup from here?" | 07:34 |
| daftykins | (they're not even tapes) | 07:34 |
| daftykins | i think South Park handles this nicely | 07:38 |
| daftykins | my client: https://www.southparkstudios.co.uk/video-clips/38kw75/south-park-running-some-tests | 07:38 |
| zxmpi | i loved customers backups. it was one guaranteed source of having no useful data whatsoever. | 07:39 |
| daftykins | :D | 07:39 |
| zxmpi | my personal favourite was always sharon used to do those, she left 6 years ago | 07:39 |
| zxmpi | or the used backup command in dos. did you know that ever version of dos backup command was incompatible with every other version of dos restore | 07:40 |
| daftykins | ooh that's a fun one! | 07:40 |
| zxmpi | i had every version of dos on floppy just to try and restore those, about 50% successful | 07:41 |
| zxmpi | or the same for tape drives. you needed an exact hardware and software match to have any chance of restoring a tape. it's why i loved super floppies and zip drives so much | 07:42 |
| zxmpi | on occsion we had to go on site to a customer to read the backup tape of a different customer as only they had the exact hardware software combo | 07:43 |
| daftykins | :D | 07:43 |
| daftykins | the benefits of selling the same kit so you had options when equipment suffered from fire/theft/etc i suppose | 07:43 |
| zxmpi | but the i inserted the disk that's all you do right was very common too sadly | 07:44 |
| zxmpi | more a every time we ordered a dozen tape drives from supplier we'd get 'latest' upgrade of hardware and software. hardware changed every year. software every 3-6 months | 07:45 |
| zxmpi | that's why i invented my never fail, assume the customer is an idiot backup software. stack the backups so even if they never change the disk/tape it left 4-5 backups on non main system. grandfather, father, son style | 07:47 |
| zxmpi | if secondary system died, not a problem. replace it. if main system died, use backup to turn secondary system into a primary. and location operational in 5 minutes | 07:48 |
| daftykins | if we broke you out of retirement to assess the level of idiot i have here, explosions may result | 07:49 |
| zxmpi | very rare for all systems to die and on 1-2 occasions that happened (flooding) the zip disk would usually have enough to rebuild | 07:49 |
| daftykins | i'm essentially being asked how a calendar works right now | 07:49 |
| zxmpi | ...in the beginning the mayans.... :-P | 07:49 |
| daftykins | ah the Blackadder lesson plan! | 07:50 |
| zxmpi | remember to sharpen your pencil! | 07:50 |
| daftykins | ok gotta nip out, bbs | 07:52 |
| zxmpi | o/ | 07:52 |
| daftykins | drat CPC had exactly one compatible UPS battery for my APC unit in stock last week, in the time it's taken to get a tax-free order put together, it's gawn | 08:45 |
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