Re:Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups
by whartung on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:05AM
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Back in the day, we had purchased a new, bigger machine, and transferred over, and everything was just peachy.
Months later, we had a power outage (scheduled I think, I don't recall).
Anyway, at some point during the transition and such, I managed to have the machines hard mount NFS across each other.
As long as one of the machines is up, everything is rosy. But cold start? They were both hanging while restoring the mount (which, they couldn't because neither was "up").
Took us about 1/2 hr to suss out what was happening and get single user in to tweak it, but...yea...exciting!
"Smart" people do this kind of innocent stuff all the time.
Months later, we had a power outage (scheduled I think, I don't recall).
Anyway, at some point during the transition and such, I managed to have the machines hard mount NFS across each other.
As long as one of the machines is up, everything is rosy. But cold start? They were both hanging while restoring the mount (which, they couldn't because neither was "up").
Took us about 1/2 hr to suss out what was happening and get single user in to tweak it, but...yea...exciting!
"Smart" people do this kind of innocent stuff all the time.