{"id":608,"date":"2003-10-22T12:01:43","date_gmt":"2003-10-22T20:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2003\/10\/22\/10-22-03\/"},"modified":"2009-04-30T11:06:39","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T18:06:39","slug":"on-automated-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2003\/10\/22\/on-automated-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"On Automated Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I present to you the canonical backup story, in my own words (except for the part about it being canonical.. Those are TJIC&#8217;s words).<\/p>\n<p>At my last company, they spent 30 grand on a fancy-ass automated tape backup system. We had 3 full time IT people and 12 engineers (that is generally considered overkill on the IT side).  \u00a0After the backup system had been in operation for 6 months, which required a co-worker to stay late and swap tapes twice a week, I tested the system by asking for a file I had &#8220;accidentally&#8221; deleted. The response?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oops. It looks like all the backup tapes are blank. We have no backups.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I present to you the canonical backup story, in my own words (except for the part about it being canonical.. Those are TJIC&#8217;s words). At my last company, they spent 30 grand on a fancy-ass automated tape backup system. We had 3 full time IT people and 12 engineers (that is generally considered overkill on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}