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Backup the caravan
- bombcar 3y agoThe real moral of the story is never offer to fix anything, because then everything involved with it is your fault forever.
- AdmiralAsshat 3y agoObviously the money is in delivering a program that just runs 'exit 0' and simply promising the client that it does something useful (system check, virus scan, backup--take your pick). By the time someone technical on their end actually discovers the ruse, you'll be long gone!
- bombcar 3y agohttps://www.ibm.com/docs/en/informix-servers/14.10?topic=bybullf-use-devnull-when-you-do-not-need-recover https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/informix-servers/14.10?topic=byb... I remember reading somewhere that it's only about 60% more failures than normal backups.
- forgotmypw17 3y agoI see it more like this: It's worth helping people, and sometimes you have to help them manage their expectations of technology. By volunteering your time, you can make a huge positive impact in their life, like saving their business. Sometimes people can be grumpy, and you have to be ready for it.
- trelane 3y agoIf you've not periodically restored and run from your backup, do you even have backups?
- disillusioned 3y agoI've been using Backblaze for 11 years now and only just had my first full disk-loss event. A 10TB drive decided to give up the ghost entirely. Indeed, I had checked before to confirm the disk was being backed up and tested recovery with their web restore option, so this made the full-disk restore fairly trivial. I opted to do their sneakernet option: they ship you a drive (up to 8TB) of your restored contents. I had 9TB backed up on this disk, so I needed two disks, which they obliged, for $200 per, which I'll get back when they receive the returned disks. Was very happy to see the process go off without a hitch, and you can't beat 19TB backed up for $7.60/mo anywhere.