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One thing I’ve never enjoyed about systems administration: trying to recover from catastrophic failure with money on the line and users breathing down your neck
by macintux 4y ago
One thing I’ve never enjoyed about systems administration: trying to recover from catastrophic failure with money on the line and users breathing down your neck. I don’t envy anyone involved with this.
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- SoftTalker 4y agoAgreed. Not a job I would ever take. If "roll back to the last backup" isn't good enough, I want no part of it.
- sofixa 4y agoThe trick is to design things such as "roll back to the last backup" is always good enough. Easier said then done, and there are often other priorities, but it's usually doable.
- pdimitar 4y ago> The trick is to design things such as "roll back to the last backup" is always good enough. ...or to just make sure the option even exists. That's a great start by itself.
- MauroIksem 4y agoVendors also rarely have to tools to the aid in recovering from catastrophic failure. We had an incident a couple of years ago where someone tested a policy in production that wiped out all email older than six months. We have tens of thousands of accounts. Microsoft had no answer for how to recover from something like that.