Re: OT: Woohoo! Managers FTW!

On 28 Feb, 18:36, Neil Hopkins <neil_hopk...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Sir Chewbury Gubbins wrote:
Ok, I have to share this with someone but I can't blog it cos it would
be gross misconduct and would get me sacked.

OK, so I have implemented a nice method of backing up all our company
data (extensive) in a nice way with loads of redundancy. Essentially, we
have amanda running on all the servers and a single machine (running the
amanda server) with a 500Gb USB Hard Drive attached. I have 20 of these
hard drives.

Each evening, Amanda server asks each of the clients "How much has
changed?". It then works out how much data it can fit on the drive,
requests the data and writes the backup. That means that you get
multiple dump levels per machine and massive overlap, using the full
500Gb of the disk, even if only a few Gb of data have actually changed.

Each day, this disk is disconnect and put in the FIRE SAFE, and the next
day's disk is removed from the FIRE SAVE and attached to the amanda
server.

Offsite storage is taken care of fortnightly by rotating the five disks for
another batch.

So far so good.

The contents of the safe:

* company documents.
* Current set of 9 backup drives.
* Hardware IPSEC keys for client vpns.
* Company chequebooks, duplicate credit cards and financial documents.
* One glass bottle of highly explosive tequila.

I think that ISO9000 says that you should drink the contents of the
bottle of tequila in the interests of data security.

--
neil h
google brights

I'd like to inform you 'hic' that you pashed your audit.. \falls over
.

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