wpeckham |
03-28-2024 02:19 PM |
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Originally Posted by hazel
(Post 6492557)
Would that be when I transferred my data from the old hard drive to the new one?
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Possibly. Depending upon how you did it and what might have smudged the metadata for that file since then.
Personally, I keep a continuity document for each of my servers recording the hardware configuration, firmware level, significant changes and the dates of those changes, major software configurations and change dates. For a change I do a change document with reasons, expected benefits, expected behavior, test plan, and a backout plan in case things go south. (For trivial change this is a couple of paragraphs, for major changes 9rare, very rare) it can be 5 or 6 pages.
These are well practiced and less involved then the Official ones I learned to do for the companies I worked for. Those took approvals form another sysadmin, a supervisor, an operations of client supervisor, and were 5 to 12 pages EVERY DANG TIME! Yeah, I do not run anything that requires that much headache at home.
The thing is that the machine can be wrong, it can lie, but I have a journal where I can look it up if it really matters. That has literally saved lives (and my job) on occasion, and made recovery from failures of home hardware just frustrating instead of impossible.
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