@_elena@mastodon.social @stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe How do I say "I knew it! I'm surrounded by assholes!" in Italian?
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You are the hero I aspire to be!
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@stefano feeling of :xkcd:`705` intensifies 😁
@stefano That’s a rather cool war story. Great for a lecture.
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@stefano Sounds like a case of either good design or *very* good luck too that the UPS took the brunt of it.
We can't protect against everything, but we *can* have an idea for what to do when the unimagined happens.
@stefano that advice also applies to monitoring scheduled backup jobs (or any other automated process). I use a service that emails me if I don't hit a specific URL roughly every 24 hours, and I hit that at the end of my backup job if it was successful.
Better than finding out the hard way at some point in the future that something happened with my backup job, preventing it from running for the last month.
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@stefano Only in BSDcafé can you read actual techno thrillers like this.
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@stefano nice story! and, yeah, internal monitoring is a must, but you also need an external one, operated by someone else than yourself.
