Do it once, do it right .. or ask someone who knows to check....
Why is it that people don't seem to be able to do things right first time? One of the most important aspects of the System admin role is to make sure you have backups, and good backups at that, and if at all possible copies of your backups held many miles away, on different types of media.... One of our sites has had some problems with their backups, one guy got halfway through fixing it before disappearing off on holiday leaving no backups over the holidays and no end of year backups. Wouldn't mind being a fly on the wall when he has responsibilty explained to him on his return. It was suggested that the remaining tech bloke on site should probably be looking to rebuild the server starting again from scratch, this drew the puzzling response of I don't know how to rebuild a server. That bang was my jaw hitting the deck. Anyways it now seems to fall to me to fix the problem of a server that has issues with one of its online disks and a Backup Exec (why did Symantec buy a...