[Gllug] MS & LSE ROFL!

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Nix wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2009, Alain Williams spake thusly:
>
>   
>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 11:00:24PM +0000, Nix wrote:
>>     
>>> As someone in the biz in my day job, this is not even slightly
>>> surprising. I am anti-shocked. (What proportion of the systems
>>> connecting to the LSE are Linux, I wonder? Most of them, I suspect, with
>>> most of the rest being Sun.)
>>>       
>> +1 -- I have never understood how anyone could put anything mission
>> critical on a MS machine.
>>     
>
> Work is an "MS Partner" and all the sysadmins (so-called) are MS people,
> so they run VMs under VMWare on Windows 2008 Server. Even the SAN is
> running Windows (which I didn't know was possible until I heard that).
>
> Last week they had some horrendous Windows bluescreen clusterfsck and
> all the data on the *entire SAN* was lost. *All* of it.
>
> They are 'trying' to recover from backups now, but it is 'touch-and-go'.
> WTF? Can't Windows even do a *backup* properly? How hard can copying a
> file over and over again be?
>   

The T-mobile sidekick fiasco was due to an MS powered SAN upgrade
failure. It seems like it's not uncommon for large SANs not to be backed
up these days!

Roger.
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