Good news, bad news

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

The good news is, I know, without a doubt, that our weekly tape backups have all been good for over a month now, and I won’t even have to do my normal, routine tests to determine that.

The bad news? Well, I think you can probably guess now that you know I spent some quality time searching through weekly tape backups, can’t you?

On the whole though, since I found the information in question, it’s not too bad a tragedy, on the other hand, there’s not enough information avaiable to figure out who needs to learn another lesson, which is always a little disappointing. 🙂

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