Similarly to when I created “wireless wednesday”, I am “creating” Backup Monday.
Wireless wednesday was my short hand way of scheduling one day a week that I would take VWBIIE out and exercise it.
As an old IT guy, I know that assumptions are silently invalidated by the universe. Like the old ture-isms, “diversely routed networks aren’t”, “disaster recovery wont”, and “you never find the last bug in your application”, “backup doesn’t”, one has to aggressively prove that stuff works.
It’s an article of faith in the IT “religion”, that you can leave something working, or have something that works flawless every time you try it, but as soon as you turn around, depend upon it, or try to demo it — typically to a Customer or your boss’ boss — it will appear as if it never ever worked. Evil spirits will come from far and wide to sprinkle bad luck upon you and ever device you then touch.
So, on Mondays I will focus on “backups”. Take them and off-site them. Test them. See what works and what doesn’t.
One has to try to defeat those evil spirits any way you can.
When was the last time you used a backup? Care to be on it working? Just tell me if you need it to or not. ;-)
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