Comment by pico303
9 days ago
What a lame excuse. “The G-Drive’s structure did not allow for backups” is a blatant lie. It’s code for, “I don’t value other employees’ time and efforts enough to figure out a reliable backup system; I have better things to do.”
Whoever made this excuse should be demoted to a journeyman ops engineer. Firing would be too good for them.
It could be accurate. Let’s say, for whatever reason, it is.
Ok.
Then it wasn’t a workable design.
The idea of “backup sites” has existed forever. The fact you use the word “cloud” to describe your personal collection of servers doesn’t suddenly mean you don’t need backups in a separate physical site.
If the government mandates its use, it should have a hot site at a minimum. Even without that a physical backup in a separate physical location in case of fire/attack/tsunami/large band of hungry squirrels is a total must-have.
However it was decided that not having that was OK, that decision was negligence.
Silly to think this is the fault of ops engineers. More likely, the project manager or C-suite didn't have time nor budget to allocate on disaster recovery.
The project shipped, it's done, they've already moved us onto the next task, no one wants to pay for maintenance anyway.
This has been my experience in 99% of the companies I have worked for in my career, while the engineers that built the bloody thing groan and are well-aware of all the failure modes of the system they've built. No one cares, until it breaks, and hopefully they get the chance to say "I **** told you this was inadequate"
You could be right, but it could also be a bad summary or bad translation.
We shouldn't rush to judgement.