[06:34] <daftykins> goooood morning gang
[06:53] <zxmpi> o/
[07:33] <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 
[07:34] <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)
[07:38] <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
[07:39] <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
[07:40] <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!
[07:41] <zxmpi> i had every version of dos on floppy just to try and restore those, about 50% successful
[07:42] <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
[07:43] <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
[07:44] <zxmpi> but the i inserted the disk that's all you do right was very common too sadly
[07:45] <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
[07:47] <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
[07:48] <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
[07:49] <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
[07:50] <daftykins> ah the Blackadder lesson plan!
[07:50] <zxmpi> remember to sharpen your pencil!
[07:52] <daftykins> ok gotta nip out, bbs
[07:52] <zxmpi> o/
[08:45] <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