I AM ACTING AS AN IRRESPONSIBLE DATA OWNER BY PROCEEDING WITHOUT BACKUP

Heh. Would be funny if after you type that it completely wiped your data and displayed "I told you so."

The team that supports us needs their backups too.  Yesterday, when moving a new report into the QA environment, decided to click "REPLACE" rather than "ADD."  The result:  100 reports deleted, 1 report added.  Luckily they have backup.

Very cool - all systems need this!

If it had been me, I'd have just made the message read:

 

It has been %d days since your last backup. Since you obviously don't value your data, I have deleted it to free up space. 

Whoeever wrote that needs a raise.  Beautiful.

This is awesome!
Now, if only Microsoft integrated this into Vista's UAC... "I AM FULLY AWARE THAT INSTALLING THIS THIRD-PARTY GAME MAY DO BAD THINGS AND I WON'T CALL MICROSOFT COMPLAINING IF SOMETHING GOES HORRIBLY WRONG".

I tend to be a disagreeable person. Seeing this sort of a rant would make me inclined to refuse to do backups just out of spite.

zlogic:

This is awesome!
Now, if only Microsoft integrated this into Vista's UAC... "I AM FULLY AWARE THAT INSTALLING THIS THIRD-PARTY GAME MAY DO BAD THINGS AND I WON'T CALL MICROSOFT COMPLAINING IF SOMETHING GOES HORRIBLY WRONG".

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I AM ACTING AS AN IRRESPONSIBLE DATA OWNER BY PROCEEDING WITHOUT BACKUP

Of course there is the WTF that they obviously expect the user to be using their application's built-in backup system. If you are using a third party backup tool, OS tool or RAID for backups then you will just be annoyed by their software whining.

No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

This is probably a great idea to get through to the business type running the software that thinks to themselves "Self, I don't need to do backups. My computer works just fine. Why, I even dripped cheese in the fan one time and it's still running! This baby is indestructable!", hoses their system, and then proceeds to verbally berate the vendor for the next hour because their "shitty" software lost all of their work.

I AM ACTING AS A BLISSFULLY IGNORANT PEON BY PROCEEDING WITHOUT BACKUP SINCE I KNOW THAT OUR FILE SERVERS ARE BACKED UP HOURLY AND AS PART OF THE FILE SERVER ROLLOUT TEST CREW I STILL ACTUALLY HAVE ACCESS TO SAID BACKUPS IN REAL TIME--(THOUGH MAYBE I SHOULDN'T ANYMORE?)--SO BUG OFF.

 

 

Hmm, it's missing something. Something like case sensitivity, and random capitalization of every letter. Yeah, that'll do.

mallard:

Of course there is the WTF that they obviously expect the user to be using their application's built-in backup system. If you are using a third party backup tool, OS tool or RAID for backups then you will just be annoyed by their software whining.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Windows keep track of backup information, so that (assuming the programmer is paying attention) this is a valid message? I could have sworn that there was an API for both asking Windows "when was this file last backed up" and telling it "I have backed up this file". I know Mac OS X has that capability, thanks to Google.

The Vicar:

mallard:

Of course there is the WTF that they obviously expect the user to be using their application's built-in backup system. If you are using a third party backup tool, OS tool or RAID for backups then you will just be annoyed by their software whining.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Windows keep track of backup information, so that (assuming the programmer is paying attention) this is a valid message? I could have sworn that there was an API for both asking Windows "when was this file last backed up" and telling it "I have backed up this file". I know Mac OS X has that capability, thanks to Google.

Wouldn't that just be the 'archive' attribute?

medialint:

OUR FILE SERVERS ARE BACKED UP HOURLY

Hourly? 

dhromed:

medialint:

OUR FILE SERVERS ARE BACKED UP HOURLY

Hourly? 

No HOURLY

MasterPlanSoftware:

dhromed:

medialint:

OUR FILE SERVERS ARE BACKED UP HOURLY

Hourly? 

No HOURLY

A common mistake. 

dhromed:

MasterPlanSoftware:

dhromed:

medialint:

OUR FILE SERVERS ARE BACKED UP HOURLY

Hourly? 

No HOURLY

A common mistake. 

Happens to me all the time, glad I could set you straight.

dhromed:

medialint:

OUR FILE SERVERS ARE BACKED UP HOURLY

Hourly? 

 

Only files that change during the hour. No, the whole thing isn't backed up at that clip.  

MasterPlanSoftware:

The Vicar:

mallard:

Of course there is the WTF that they obviously expect the user to be using their application's built-in backup system. If you are using a third party backup tool, OS tool or RAID for backups then you will just be annoyed by their software whining.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Windows keep track of backup information, so that (assuming the programmer is paying attention) this is a valid message? I could have sworn that there was an API for both asking Windows "when was this file last backed up" and telling it "I have backed up this file". I know Mac OS X has that capability, thanks to Google.

Wouldn't that just be the 'archive' attribute?

 
Anyway, who's to say that software is even on Windows. That screenshot is clearly of a terminal program, not a DOS window.

mallard:

RAID for backups

 RAID is a way to get redundancy. RAID is neither a backup strategy nor a replacement for one.

mallard:

Of course there is the WTF that they obviously expect the user to be using their application's built-in backup system. If you are using a third party backup tool, OS tool or RAID for backups then you will just be annoyed by their software whining.

The WTF is that you consider RAIDing disks as a backup tool.