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Remedy is not a remedy.

Ah, but what about auditing your backups ? How granular of a time period can you roll back to ? Have you verified it as part of your normal audit routine ? Everything mentioned is essentially the same for a non federal IT professional...

Friday Bump !

Interesting discussion on HA vs. FT.

interesting, they just opened a thinkgeek store less than a mile down the access road.....

Excellent jkuvlesk​ !

that only happens when one of the kids leaves the front door open.

How about the Nerd Wranglers ! They get to ride herd over the Nerd Herd (us)...

well that phrase doesn't get caught up in many of the moderation filters..yet.

Congrats ironman84‌ !!

Weekend on call database mayhem bump !

Congrats byrona‌ !! While I would have loved to have it my wife would have been not happy with the amount of room it took up. My kids would think it is a table to eat off of while watching TV. Then there would be the cat hair and it's use as a scratching post.....

I bet....a correct and robust DNS is so very important. In the past once we got DNS correct we set up a caching DNS server on one of our monitoring servers so all the DNS calls are basically local and don't over stress the primary DNS. It worked well.

I see this happening with a shop going through rapid growth and management making decisions to push through with something because it is on their direct needs list (they want that cool factor I have stuff in the clouds checkbox checked) or it may really be a business need thinking the normal DBA's can support it...or have…

To unsubscribe from winter means you need to move further south towards the equator. Texas generally has mild winters with a spot of small snow or ice from time to time.

Back in town Monday morning Bump !

Sad but true tinmann0715​.....

might not be too bad if it has trailer brakes....but when the brakes heat up and you have brake fade. If you have ever been pushed through an intersection by a heavy trailer without trailer brakes. It gets a pucker going. With that short wheelbase things happen quickly and it is easy to over compensate and truly get…

reset to factory and then update to current. hopefully you have the apps backed up...

Not much is 100% safe these days.... I agree that reducing the risk is important.....awareness is the first step. Look before you leap.

Understood. The days before email it was a phone call or hit the stairs to next floor or 8 to speak with someone. Then when email became the norm everyone reverts to it because it is easy. Then came instant messaging. At times it is convenient but I usually hate it as everyone wants to use it.

nothing quite like a misconfigured san switch or a san switch with buggy software to make life "interesting".

Excellent post cxi​ ! As the others have mentioned it is a tough balance. silverbacksays​ responds better than I could have so I am not going to repeat it.

HumpDay Bump !

#SWUGLIFE Matters !!

I almost had to list Texas as the country. Survey complete.

If the organization is ITIL or ISO certification based then there should be a reasonable expectation of it as it should be a requirement. In this day and age in most industries trouble tickets are a common thing. There should be buy-in and push down from the top to support this.

we've been working on the Cisco Telepresence. While I have seen it I haven't been involved in any of the implementation details.

I don't see SNMP going away...it may need to evolve some. The fun part is to now utilize correlation of metrics, events, and status of processes to provide an overall view of a service that is distributed across multiple servers.