[X4U] Time Machine

[Jens Selvig]

I suppose everyone has horror stories regarding backing up. :)

Back in the 90's I worked for a computer store. A client we acquired  
had their server computer fail. The secretary had for the past 5  
years dutifully backed up the 'server' to a tape drive every day as  
the last work task. They even kept a clean tape once every month just  
to be sure. The only problem was that whoever set up the process  
originally had done it wrong and all that they had on tape was the  
OS. It took them well over a month of hard work to rebuild their  
files. Very costly indeed.

IIRCC, it was a Quadra 800 hard drive that failed. Very small by  
today's computers!

Jens Selvig
...lost in Montana...



On Nov 7, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Robert Ameeti wrote:

> The most often overlooked weakness of any back up system is backing  
> up but then not attempting to restore. Oftentimes an admin will  
> have lots of backups but he has never restored and when the need  
> arises, he finds that none of them work. In this case, I'm thinking  
> that the first part was not ever completed.