quiz:
you are new to IT and haven't been doing it very long and I ask you to move these files into this directory replacing any that already exist.
would you:
a) move those files into the said directory replacing any that already exist?
or
b) replace the entire directory with a randomly chosen directory from the backups?
and guess what happened to me today? it wouldn't be so bad but the guy doing it must have been working in IT for about 15 years more than me -
when I asked him why 3 weeks of data had just been deleted he said 'oh I got mixed up' - which i suppose is true: he got mixed up over whether he should follow the deployment instructions or just make up a procedure which had very little chance of working- in his confusion he opted for the latter - nearly ruined my weekend!!
you are new to IT and haven't been doing it very long and I ask you to move these files into this directory replacing any that already exist.
would you:
a) move those files into the said directory replacing any that already exist?
or
b) replace the entire directory with a randomly chosen directory from the backups?
and guess what happened to me today? it wouldn't be so bad but the guy doing it must have been working in IT for about 15 years more than me -
when I asked him why 3 weeks of data had just been deleted he said 'oh I got mixed up' - which i suppose is true: he got mixed up over whether he should follow the deployment instructions or just make up a procedure which had very little chance of working- in his confusion he opted for the latter - nearly ruined my weekend!!
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