he knows just enough to be dangerous

[digitaldiscipline]

i hate it when the boss gets bored - he tries to geek out.

what started out as a "i'm going to put a new hard drive in the home machine and back up everything there" has since spun off into a hellish, kafka-esque investigation of the data archiving schemes the previous IT consultant did, which is fine, but what's driving me utterly bugshit is the fact that my perfectly servicable batch files, intended to back up data, are NOT being run by windows' goddamn task scheduler, which is making the boss skittish and me look like a fucking asshole.

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[hellsop.livejournal.com]

Worth doing, especially if you can get someone else to spring for the hardware. Samba makes a damfine fileserving and printer-queueing system.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

really, i think all i need to make him un-clench his buttcheeks is something that i can point to and say "all our client files, email, and X are being archived _here_ every night, so if for some reason your machine and my machine were to perform ritual seppukku simultaneously, we wouldn't lose more than one day's worth of work."

right now, that's =supposed= be happening with *.bat files, controlled by windows' task scheduler. the latter is falling down on the job (manually executing the batch files does what they're supposed to do - brute-force XCOPY, drive-to-drive).

he's got juse enough of his brother's paranoia that both machines have two drives, with said client data backed up from one drive to the other, then from one machine to the other. yes, four copies. and he gets caught up in minutae and complexities where none need exist. argh.