2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 125: Into Thin Eir
Two recent examples of backups not being properly tested, why the term “edge” is meaningless, we try not to laugh at the Bitcoin dev who lost all his magic beans, and directory services for mixed environments.
Plugs
Klara’s best articles from 2022
News/discussion
Eir says thousands of customer emails irretrievably deleted in error
EA says it can’t recover 60% of players’ corrupted Madden franchise save files
It’s time to retire ‘edge’ from our IT vocabulary
Bitcoin Core developer loses all his BTC
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