🚀 go-pugleaf

In a previous article, stella@netcom.com (Steven J. Tella) says:

>In article <rapD6JEC0.4H8@netcom.com>, Robert A. Pease <rap@netcom.com> wrote:
>>That out of the way, I must say that I lost a file myself.  I was told that
>>Netcom couldn't restore it because it would take too long for them to find
>>which tape the file was on and then where the file was on the tape.  My
>
>I got told that restoral would interfere with the process of making
>backups.
>
>(Huh?)

On a related note, I recently managed to goober my autoexec file on my
computer at work (Don't ask). "No problem," I thought to myself, "I'll
just have Johnny restore the file from the tape backups he's been making
every month for about a year now."

Wrongo!

First off,due to the new casing on my PC, the plug no longer fit,
meaning a part would have to be ordered, and since we are in a change
of leadership, that would be indefinately delayed.

Secondly, when we tried to restore it on another computer and then transfer
it via "sneakernet", we discovered the tape machine refused to cooperate.
On nearly every other computer in the office. Even though he had just
finished restoring someone else's machine.

I'm not sure whether to blame O/S2 or Mike Holmes!
    
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Had this been an actual emergency, you'd be writhing on the ground in     
unspeakable agony, bleeding from every orifice, with your blackened skin  
falling away in ragged strips."