Tech Magazine Loses June Issue, No Backup 245
Gareth writes "Business 2.0, a magazine published by Time, has been warning their readers against the hazards of not taking backups of computer files. So much so that in an article published by them in 2003, they 'likened backups to flossing — everyone knows it's important, but few devote enough thought or energy to it.' Last week, Business 2.0 got caught forgetting to floss as the magazine's editorial system crashed, wiping out all the work that had been done for its June issue. The backup server failed to back up."
After the swearing stopped. (Score:5, Funny)
Then the swearing started again.
With this much free advertising (Score:5, Funny)
Nelson Muntz (Score:5, Funny)
Ha-ha!
HAHAHA (Score:2, Funny)
Rag (Score:2, Funny)
That's OK, nobody reads Business 2.0 anyway.
The laws of the universe (Score:2, Funny)
Pr0n still on the way right? (Score:2, Funny)
-m
At this exact moment across the world (Score:3, Funny)
Re:They probably still have most of it (Score:4, Funny)
I think we can all relax and rest assured that the June issue of Business 2.0 will have all its intended advertising.
Re:err... (Score:5, Funny)
Errr...uhh....umm...'verifying'? Uh, I'll be right back!
Coming soon ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:err... (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sure they've heard of it, in a conversation that went something like this:
IT Guy: We need a system for verifying our backups.
Suit: How come? Don't the backups work?
IT Guy: We need to be sure that if there is a failure, the backups will be ok.
Suit: But they're just copies, aren't they? I copy files all the time and it never goes wrong.
IT Guy: This is a little more complicated than that.
Suit: How hard can it be?
IT Guy: Well, I was thinking we might need to hire a part-timer just to take care of backups and verification.
Suit: But we've never had a failure! Sounds like empire building to me. I know that's what I'd be doing in your position. Nice try. We'll keep the backup system the way it is, thanks.
IT Guy: But..!
Suit: Moving on to the next item on the agenda... ok, Executive Bonuses!
Practicing what they preach (Score:2, Funny)
Check out their website: It's 'Dumbtastic!' (Score:2, Funny)
101 Dumbest Moments in Business [cnn.com] I think they might want to revise their list. I'm sure I would like to
Re:How does this actually happen? (Score:3, Funny)
Me: You're home early; not enough work to do?
Roommate: No, the server burned out
Me: Oh, that's no big deal; you just wait for them to get replacement parts and then you get back to it
Roommate: No, seriously, it's burned out. The air conditioning unit failed, the entire server room heated up to the point of spontaneous combustion and the entire server room caught fire
Lesson learned, keep your backups somewhere far, far away from the servers.
Re:After the swearing stopped. (Score:3, Funny)
So yes, you can have the logs "lie" (report success for useless backups) and have perfectly fine software. Oh, and when I finally left, they had 20 or so desktop UPSs still daisy chained for their server backup power plan, and nothing telling servers to auto-shutdown, so the occasional power failure would corrupt open databases and they had so little uptime that some servers couldn't even finish the shutdown procedure before battery power ran out.
Re:The laws of the universe (Score:3, Funny)
Paging Jerry Seinfeld (Score:5, Funny)
IT: We have your backup, we just can't restore it.
Jerry: But the backup keeps the data here, that's why you have the backup!
IT: I think I know why we have backups.
Jerry: I don't think you do. You see, you know how to MAKE the backup, you just don't know how to RESTORE the backup. And that's really the most important part of the backup: the restoring. Anybody can just make them.
Re:Nelson Says (Score:3, Funny)
Ha ha!
Re:Didn't you read the article? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:We've all been there. Don't be too pious, here. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:We've all been there. Don't be too pious, here. (Score:5, Funny)