On 18-Nov-08 11:32, Invisible wrote:
> For the last few days, backup jobs have been failing, and I don't know 
> why. I just spent the morning poking around to try to find out why.
> 
> Hey, guess what? Several of the backup settings have magically changed 
> themselves to something completely different values.
> 
> I wonder, who could have done that? Perhaps it was the fairies? Yes, 
> that must be it. It was changed by faries.
> 
> I'm completely sure that none of this has anything at all to do with the 
> new global backup procedure document that comes into effect on the 1st 
> of December. (Notice today's date: 18 *November*. Hence, our current 
> procedure document is still in force and must be followed to the letter.)
> 
> Obviously I have no proof of who changed those settings. But I have a 
> pretty good idea.
> 
> I'm really angry right now. I've spent all this time doing workarounds 
> to try to get the backups to work and writing all these extra log 
> entries to record my actions, and the cause of the problem all along was 
> some twat in America who ****ed around with MY backup settings without 
> bothering to tell me! >:-[

We told you before that if such things happen and you don't know for 
sure who did it, you *have to* report the incident as if it is someone 
hacking your computers. You also have to report to your boss that there 
is a legal problem because you are not able to create the backups as 
specified in the documents.

Though I have the feeling that you did not do that last times and you 
won't do it now.

> I utterly fail to see how I can be held legally responsible for this 
> stuff when I apparently have no control over it. How can I face a jail 
> sentence for somebody else's actions? 

Because it is your job to notice and take action to prevent it 
happening. In your case the course of action is to restore the original 
settings and block remote access to the settings. If you can't do it in 
software you have to disable the network physically. A sort of workable 
solution that might just not interfere with standard working procedures 
is to announce to the company that your local facility will be off-line 
  sunday afternoon to create the legally required backups.

I'm sorry, but if you only complain here but take no action that makes 
you responsible. In your position you have to pass that on as fast as 
possible to your boss.

> In what universe is that fair??

Who is talking about fair?

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