Re:'Check Your Backups Work' Day
by dspillett on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:08AM
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That is why I'm thinking of scripting up something to scan the status messages and present a list (in the console or on a web page), colour highlighted (normal for info only, green for all OK, red for error or missed message, big red bold (flashing?) for an issue still not resolved from the previous day. That automates checking but I've still got the individual updates in case that fails. Maybe I'll make the output of this my homepage and/or console login banner.
> And how do you ensure a team will always have someone surprised not to get a daily message?
For a team you have a management problem not a technical one! Somebody needs to be responsible for it in the end, plain and simple.
On a less authoritarian note a technical helper might perhaps be to have a screen, always on, showing a dashboard of statuses, where everyone can see it? Make it beep incessantly when a new warning arrives until someone acknowledges it. If you acknowledge a message either deal with it (if you can) or notify whoever needs to be told so they can take action.
People will still sometimes ignore or miss the warnings. Nothing and no one is perfect.
But I'm only dealing with my own collection of personal data and projects here so it isn't that scale of problem - at work I used to be responsible for infrastructure as well as my actual job but we no longer operate at a scale where that is at all practical so I have to trust someone else is dealing with it (though I'm not that trusting I do sometimes take time out to check things myself where I have access).
> And how do you ensure a team will always have someone surprised not to get a daily message?
For a team you have a management problem not a technical one! Somebody needs to be responsible for it in the end, plain and simple.
On a less authoritarian note a technical helper might perhaps be to have a screen, always on, showing a dashboard of statuses, where everyone can see it? Make it beep incessantly when a new warning arrives until someone acknowledges it. If you acknowledge a message either deal with it (if you can) or notify whoever needs to be told so they can take action.
People will still sometimes ignore or miss the warnings. Nothing and no one is perfect.
But I'm only dealing with my own collection of personal data and projects here so it isn't that scale of problem - at work I used to be responsible for infrastructure as well as my actual job but we no longer operate at a scale where that is at all practical so I have to trust someone else is dealing with it (though I'm not that trusting I do sometimes take time out to check things myself where I have access).