Re: Willing to bet this is Windows at its best

In article <ZzJFl$sWDrss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Kilgallen@xxxxxxxxxxx (Larry Kilgallen) wrote:

In article <q7qdnbhuiJ5Lm53bnZ2dnUVZ_sDinZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Maverick
<Sun@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
Bob Willard wrote:
tomarsin2015@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

That's what happened to a computer technician reformatting a disk
drive at the Alaska Department of Revenue. While doing routine
maintenance work, the technician accidentally deleted applicant
information for an oil-funded account - one of Alaska residents'
biggest perks - and mistakenly reformatted the backup drive, as well.

Even the most dedicated M$ haters should not be able to blame WinDuhs for
this goof. This is an obvious case of fumble-fingers at work; multiple
f-f at that.

But do you know any other operating system that would allow this?

At the first site where all of my work was on VMS, on the first day
I was there, an operator did a DSC backup in the wrong direction,
wiping out the current data with the stale data.

A similar mistake is still a possibility with VMS standalone BACKUP.

One alternative is to create a (fairly minimal) boot disk containing
customer/site/cluster specific procedures which do appropriate checks on
volume information and perform such backups on the operator's behalf.

Another alternative could be to drive the console via a console
management package and a script, but the thought of having to parse
console output gives me cold feet in the context of reliable backups.

--
Paul Sture
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  • Re: Willing to bet this is Windows at its best
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    (comp.os.vms)
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