Comments on: Nightmares before Halloween: bad dreams of the CTO/CIO http://www.peterkretzman.com/2007/10/31/nightmares-before-halloween-bad-dreams-of-the-ctocio/ Intensely practical tips on information technology, by Peter Kretzman Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:37:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: wheatdogg http://www.peterkretzman.com/2007/10/31/nightmares-before-halloween-bad-dreams-of-the-ctocio/#comment-355 wheatdogg Wed, 21 Nov 2007 14:57:21 +0000 http://www.peterkretzman.com/2007/10/31/nightmares-before-halloween-bad-dreams-of-the-ctocio/#comment-355 Worse is getting word from your boss that the site has been hacked. I had forgotten to restrict commenting on our Joomla site to registered users, so we were getting spammed by some pretty salacious, not-appropriate-for-high-schools sources. Not a real great way to showcase your CMS solution for the boss to see, I tell ya. My nightmare, which I have already lived through twice, is for the Exchange server to crash. The first time, with Exchange 5.5, I was able to recover using exmerge. The second time, with 2000, we had to do a brick-level restoration when a power glitch chunked the hard drive. I now back up those Exchange databases and logs three different ways, but the nightmare hasn't gone away. Worse is getting word from your boss that the site has been hacked. I had forgotten to restrict commenting on our Joomla site to registered users, so we were getting spammed by some pretty salacious, not-appropriate-for-high-schools sources. Not a real great way to showcase your CMS solution for the boss to see, I tell ya.

My nightmare, which I have already lived through twice, is for the Exchange server to crash. The first time, with Exchange 5.5, I was able to recover using exmerge. The second time, with 2000, we had to do a brick-level restoration when a power glitch chunked the hard drive. I now back up those Exchange databases and logs three different ways, but the nightmare hasn’t gone away.

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