I could have put this on my work blog but it was too good not to share it here too.
The team at work needed to restore data using a backup of the system. They contacted the department that do the backups.
I'm not exactly sure of the detail, but I was told that the latest backup was only done five months ago. This was a shock because backups were supposed to be happening regularly, daily.
When this was investigated the team responsible for backing up the system said that they used to get daily e-mails reminding them to back up the system, but the e-mails were irritating them, so they set up a rule to delete them automatically.
No reminder e-mail, no backup.
I laughed and laughed.
Did someone say "Muppets!"
I can understand the need to stop daily email overload and move to "exception-based comms", but are you saying this department (one that I know well too) forgot to do the backups when they stopped getting the email? That is what you're saying, but it's surely too ridiculous to be true.
ReplyDeleteI did say and mean that backups stopped when the e-mails stopped. But trust me, in my world, this is not too ridiculous to be true.
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