Dan,
your story is very close to one I had. A client of mine did a backup each
night. I asked him if they ever did a complete restore, he said no. I
asked him if he wanted to me to do one, and he asked would he be charged? I
told him that yes it would be part of my normal hourly fee/rate ( which was
I think back them in ~1990 $25 an hour. ) He told me know that he would not
pay it. Two days later you know what happened, total harddrive frailer and
all the backups were blank! Since I had done an upgrade 2 days before, I
had copied the data to my notebook for testing. Even thou I was able to get
him a 2 day old backup, and save his company, he was still mad at me! Oh
the life of a consultant <s>
Anthony
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Covill" <dcovill .at. san .DOT rr.com>
> Timothy:
>
> Your boss's chances are better if he hires a drunk to drive him home
> without wearing a seatbelt! If he sees no value in backing up his
> company's data, IMO he is prima facie incompetent.
>
> About 15 years ago I had a client who backed everything up to tape
> nightly. Each morning he checked that the backup had completed, and saved
> the tapes. But he had never tried the Restore function. :-( One day I
> mistakenly typed ERASE *.DBF instead of ERASE *.BAK (yeah, I know!
> <g>). He said "no problem", and fished out the latest backup tape. There
> was nothing (nada, zip, etc.) on it! Turns out the drive was bad and
> wasn't writing anything, even tho the process completed. I had a old
> version on my test disk from a month previous. Took them a week to get
> back all the orders and current manufacturing status.
>
> They instituted a program of testing the tape restore after that. <g>
>
> Dan Covill
>
> At 16:10 09/30/03 -0400, Timothy Grahl wrote:
> >Our tape drive that we used to backup up with got fried about a month
> >ago, and I do not think I have been able to convince my boss how
> >important and dire this is. Our company's entire foundation is built on
> >our name and sales databases. Could I get some responses on why it is
> >important to backup, and hear some horror stories of not backing up?
> >Thanks!
>
>
>
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