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- TAGS:backups, hospital
- IT TOPICS:Data Center, Management, Storage
This pilot fish gets the nod to be IT director at a small hospital. But he's new to the organization, so he begins by asking various people on his staff about the status of different IT functions.
What's our situation on validating backups? he asks a pair of staffers who have been with the hospital for more than five years.
"The next week they inform me that one server has never had a valid backup," sighs fish. "But they now realize you must use the key to engage the drive..."
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