Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Our backup rotation doesn't go back nearly that far.
> 
>   I think this is the WTF in this post.
> 
>   What good is a backup if you are going to destroy backups which are
> "too old"? Do they assume that nobody will ever want to restore a file
> which was deleted more than a certain amount of time ago?

Basically... yes, that's the assumption. They assume that if somebody 
deleted a file accidentally, they'll quickly realise and request to have 
the file restored.

Unfortuantely, what happened here is that somebody burned some files to 
CD and then deleted them, and 8 months later we figure out that actually 
they burned the wrong files - yet deleted the right ones. (In fairness, 
we're talking about projects which have names such as 45748-54867-15486. 
Very easy to muddle them up!)

This exact thing has happened once before. I guess two problems in 6 
years is two too many...

The new global backup procedure that's being drafted will mean that 
backup tapes are stored *forever*. (With the corresponding astronomical 
increase in expenditure on new tapes and physical storage space. But 
hey, it's not my money.)

Unfortunately, the new procedure document is also vague as hell and 
pretty hard to comprehend. Clearly the guy who wrote it understands what 
he means... but I don't.

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