RANT CORNER

[Derek27]

A disaster recovery procedure is useless unless it's successfully tested!

Tonight before I go to bed, I'm gonna delete all my partitions on my main trading PC, operating system, data, local backups, everything, and then I'll wipe the first gigabyte of the SSD.

Today I'll switch my computer on at 12 noon and test my recovery plan, ready to trade the 13:20 at Pontefract.

What a flipping disaster - 8 hours later and my main trading PC is fucked!!

[ShaunWhite]

A disaster recovery procedure is useless unless it's successfully tested!

Tonight before I go to bed, I'm gonna delete all my partitions on my main trading PC, operating system, data, local backups, everything, and then I'll wipe the first gigabyte of the SSD.

Today I'll switch my computer on at 12 noon and test my recovery plan, ready to trade the 13:20 at Pontefract.

What a flipping disaster - 8 hours later and my main trading PC is fucked!!

DR is generally done on your backup system, to check you can flip to it while the reason for your primary system going down is being figured out and fixed. Otherwise, it's just a genuine disaster you're recovering from. You didn't seriously just do a backup and kill your machine? I didn't realise you're one of those adrenaline junkies

[ShaunWhite]

.... Do sympathise a bit tho Derek... Luckily when it comes to DR I go into the AWS dashboard, fire up a new server and load the backup image. At home I clone my system drive and can just swap it out to test it, and swap it back if there's problems.

[Derek27]

A disaster recovery procedure is useless unless it's successfully tested!

Tonight before I go to bed, I'm gonna delete all my partitions on my main trading PC, operating system, data, local backups, everything, and then I'll wipe the first gigabyte of the SSD.

Today I'll switch my computer on at 12 noon and test my recovery plan, ready to trade the 13:20 at Pontefract.

What a flipping disaster - 8 hours later and my main trading PC is fucked!!

DR is generally done on your backup system, to check you can flip to it while the reason for your primary system going down is being figured out and fixed. Otherwise, it's just a genuine disaster you're recovering from. You didn't seriously just do a backup and kill your machine? I didn't realise you're one of those adrenaline junkies

I've got my backup PC with full synced data. I think the issue is the GPT disks that I'm not so familiar with.

[Kai]

A disaster recovery procedure is useless unless it's successfully tested!

Tonight before I go to bed, I'm gonna delete all my partitions on my main trading PC, operating system, data, local backups, everything, and then I'll wipe the first gigabyte of the SSD.

Today I'll switch my computer on at 12 noon and test my recovery plan, ready to trade the 13:20 at Pontefract.

What a flipping disaster - 8 hours later and my main trading PC is fucked!!

Wait, you wanted to simulate a disaster but created a real one instead

[Derek27]

What's the name of the city you were born in?

That's a safe and secure question. Nobody knows or would guess I was born in London. Oh shit!!!

[LeTiss]

What's the name of the city you were born in?

That's a safe and secure question. Nobody knows or would guess I was born in London. Oh shit!!!

Lyndhurst, New Forest

[Derek27]

What's the name of the city you were born in?

That's a safe and secure question. Nobody knows or would guess I was born in London. Oh shit!!!

Lyndhurst, New Forest

What's the name of your first school?

I've used that before but when I try to answer it, potential answers are:-

Saint Joseph's
St. Joseph's
St Joseph's
St Josephs
St. Joseph
st josephs
St. Joseph's Primary, etc.

[Derek27]

I just opened the Spotify app and it said, go to your browser to log in! What's the flipping point in having an app??? I just spent 5 minutes searching for it
amongst 139 subfolders in Program Files\WindowsApps!

And now that I've logged in it say, continue to the app, FFS!

[ShaunWhite]

I just opened the Spotify app and it said, go to your browser to log in! What's the flipping point in having an app??? I just spent 5 minutes searching for it
amongst 139 subfolders in Program Files\WindowsApps!

And now that I've logged in it say, continue to the app, FFS!

Sketchup Pro is like that too, but it loads the browser login page for you so it's no bother. I'm not sure why.

[Derek27]

What's worse than going to the supermarket to buy your favourite beer and seeing an empty shelf?

A flipping selfish git taking the last pack, right in front of your eyes!

[Derek27]

A disaster recovery procedure is useless unless it's successfully tested!

Tonight before I go to bed, I'm gonna delete all my partitions on my main trading PC, operating system, data, local backups, everything, and then I'll wipe the first gigabyte of the SSD.

Today I'll switch my computer on at 12 noon and test my recovery plan, ready to trade the 13:20 at Pontefract.

What a flipping disaster - 8 hours later and my main trading PC is fucked!!

DR is generally done on your backup system, to check you can flip to it while the reason for your primary system going down is being figured out and fixed. Otherwise, it's just a genuine disaster you're recovering from. You didn't seriously just do a backup and kill your machine? I didn't realise you're one of those adrenaline junkies

I'm having another go tomorrow morning. This time I'll back up my entire drive to my backup computer, as well as the partitions for safety. I'm gonna crack this disaster recovery plan if it kills me, and one or two PCs. I wanna make sure if I have a disaster I can be up and running in the time it takes to image a hard drive and boot a computer twice.

[foxwood]

Have you considered true disaster recovery eg where someone breaks in and nicks your computers while you're stuck in the queue behind a muppet while buying your shopping - or a fire etc ?

[ShaunWhite]

Have you considered true disaster recovery eg where someone breaks in and nicks your computers while you're stuck in the queue behind a muppet while buying your shopping - or a fire etc ?

I used to have caddies for all my drives and pop them all out as security by since m.2 the damn things are screwed to the mobo. If we're going away I hide my pc (they'll never find it) but it's not a solution if you're just going out for a bit.

[Derek27]

Have you considered true disaster recovery eg where someone breaks in and nicks your computers while you're stuck in the queue behind a muppet while buying your shopping - or a fire etc ?

Year. Rant Corner > police > insurance claim > cleanup > new computer > clean install. Then I'll be where I am now.