Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Let's do our job better?

"I am required to back up and wipe several hundred computers. Currently, this involves booting up each machine, running a backup script, turning the machine off, booting off a pendrive, and running some software that writes 0s to the drive several times. I was wondering if there was a faster solution. Like a server on an isolated network with a switch where I could just connect the computers up, turn them on and get the server to back up the data and wipe the drives."

Are you an hourly employee?
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29, @11:42AM

Then don't automate it.

Re:Are you an hourly employee?
by Mythran on Tuesday November 29, @12:01PM

That's just crap. "Lets be less efficient so we can get more money!" That's not the mindset devs or sysadmin should ever be in. I can't think of a career where less efficient just for greed is a good thing. Always strive to be better than what you are.

Re:Are you an hourly employee?
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29, @12:10PM

> I can't think of a career where less efficient just for greed is a good thing.

You wouldn't make it ten minutes in the public sector then.

"Hey boss, we managed to meet or exceed all our goals AND we're significantly under budget!" "Dammit, we'll get less money next year if you don't find a way to spend the rest NOW!"

Sad but true.

Re:Are you an hourly employee?
by avgjoe62 on Tuesday November 29, @12:13PM

> I can't think of a career where less efficient just for greed is a good thing. Always strive to be better than what you are.

You, my son, will never have a career in politics...

Source: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/11/11/29/154242/ask-slashdot-networked-back-upwipe-process

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