[conspire] Why you should always test your backups

[Deirdre Saoirse Moen]

Ouch on the video. :(

A company I used to work for had two notable incidents:

1. They were about to go to backup power (because power was due to be
   out at the building for half a day) when the network admin turned the
   backup power switch the wrong way, taking the entire system offline.
   He was known as blackout from that day forward.
2. And then there's the time I used killall on HP-UX, knowing only its
   Linux use. And yes, I did it as root. (That is basically a kill -9
   everything right now.)
Not as bad as when a sysadmin deleted the Oracle rollback logs not
realizing they were important, but still….

On Wed, Aug 8, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Paul Zander wrote:
> In the long run, the guy who wiped out the production is probably
> lucky to be away from a company with with multiple attitude problems.> 
> I was never in IT, but I used to ask about the IT department when
> interviewing.   The one time I didn't ask, I found myself at a company
> that treated IT as a cost to be minimized without concern for how much
> time and frustration that caused for everyone else.> 
> Speaking of unexpected horrors: this morning, the television had an
> item about a woman.  She quietly took a break from her current company
> to go to a job fair.  Somehow the local TV station got her on camera
> and broadcast the clip.> 
> **From:** Deirdre Saoirse Moen <deirdre at deirdre.net> **To:**
> Conspire List <conspire at linuxmafia.com> **Sent:** Wednesday, August
> 8, 2018 9:56 AM **Subject:** [conspire] Why you should always test
> your backups> 
> Junior dev wipes out production on first day, can’t be restored:
> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6ez8ag/accidentally_destroyed_production_database_on/> 
> Linked to from an unfortunate thread yesterday about someone who
> accidentally stepped on (and killed) a dog they didn’t know about
> while whiteboarding in a job interview:> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/95dgrx/i_am_absolutely_mortified_and_embarrassed_beyond/> 
> Let’s just say it made me feel better about my recent round of job
> interviews.> 
> Deirdre
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