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> But I've never been allowed to run a fire drill. Rebuilding a network from bare tin is obviously expensive, but not as expensive as losing the business. Som

> But I've never been allowed to run a fire drill. Rebuilding a network from bare tin is obviously expensive, but not as expensive as losing the business. Sometime your job is not to be able to take the backups, but to take the blame when a restore can't be done. If you think that might be you, time to polish up that resume... Especially for cloud-based businesses, refusing to let you spend ~8 hours of production platform costs to run a full platform rebuild fire drill is insane, that's about 0.1% of your annual prod AWS budget, and 0.5% of you (or your team's) annual time.

denton-scratch 5y ago
We weren't cloud-based; "bare-metal restore" would have meant acquiring and housing new hardware. And we'd have needed test-scripts and so on - more than 8 hours, more like a few days to do it repeatably (but once that was done, it could have been automated). The boss owned the company; I think it was shortsighted of him. Being able to blame me wouldn't have done him much good, once his firm had gone down the tubes, and I'd moved on. But it was his business to lose, and he knew what his margins were - I didn't. He didn't like me much, mainly because he was a control freak, and I knew his systems much better than he did - I had the control that he craved. Control freaks shouldn't hire people that know more than they do.