On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 10:21:12AM -0600, L. V. Lammert wrote:
> No, that isn't going to work. This isn't some elitist club - if we can't
> provide a simple, sane, safe way for a [priviledged] user to push a backup
> image out to a DR server, than *we* have failed as technologists.
There's nothing "elitist" about requiring baseline knowledge, and I think
"reading the man page for crontab and understanding what the fields mean"
sets that bar quite low.
Anyone who can't clear that bar may be a nice person, a fine person,
a wonderful person, but they have absolutely no business being in a
system/network administration role. For whatever reason, they just
don't have what it takes. Perhaps they'll go off and acquire it:
people do learn and grow. But until/unless they do, they should be
doing something else for a living, doubly so in the contemporary
environment, where their ignorance/incompetence is an active menace
to everyone else on the 'net.
Or at least to your operation: surely something as critically important
as backups can not, should not, be relegated to such people.
"Mister Hart, here is a dime. Take it, call your mother,
and tell her there is serious doubt about you ever becoming a lawyer."
--- Kingsfield
I often find it remarkable that we had secretarial staff working at
the command line and creating quite complex documents with troff, eqn,
and tbl 25 years ago, yet so-called "system administrators" today can't
use vi (let alone ed).
---Rsk
