The Institute for Backup Trauma

fief writes "John Cleese explains why tape based backup solutions will drive a manager insane in a viral marketing bit for Live Vault. (flash required) Produced by the Captains of Industry. Links provided via AdRants" Barely an ad, mostly just hilarious. Also contains Michael Dorn. Use as directed.

Missing Something..

[lw54]

If only they had hired Ron Jeremy

One problem...

[nxtr]

If it's a credible institution, where's the machine that goes 'bing'?

meh

[Danimoth]

It was moderatly ammusing, I enjoyed the part where their backups failed because the guy who had them drove off of a cliff, we all know that is a problem with a tape backup.

Institute for /. server trauma...

[saskboy]

I have an idea for his next sketch, and it involves a smoking server, that features a flash animation, and less than NASA-like bandwidth available to it...

John Cleese in IT?

[datafr0g]

It's gotta involve spam.... spam... spam, spam, spam

Re:meh

[Indy Media Watch]

I enjoyed the part where their backups failed because the guy who had them drove off of a cliff, we all know that is a problem with a tape backup.

Only in our American cars, which we know (from Hollywood) have a tendency to blow up without fail in a massive fireball as soon as they leave the road.

It's Decent

[Adrilla]

But it'll never be as good as getting perpendicular [slashdot.org]

Insanity

[Indy Media Watch]

John Cleese explains why tape based backup solutions will drive a manager insane

In the next episode, he explains why Slashdotted marketing solutions will drive a network manager to suicide.

The real trauma. . .

[Bastian]

. . . is when I open a website in a new tab, and the site resizes my whole FireFox window.

All for a $@#% Flash site, too.

At least it doesn't use frames, I guess.

The text in the 'hidden frame'

[parking_god]

Because I *am* the kind of person who annoys those around me by shouting out continuity errors in theaters, here's what was in the hidden frame of the Clockwork Orange-like training video:

Congratulations
You have found the hidden frame. If you have time to look for things
like this, you have way too much time on your hands. You are
probably the kind of person who watches movies just to look for
continuity issues, shouting out, "Hey, that guy in the background is
wearing a different pair of cufflinks than he did two seconds ago!"
- as if anyone else cares. You tend to dream up elaborate conspiracy
theories that involve movie stars, politicians, and the logos of certain
brands of cereal. You used to stuff grasshoppers into soda bottles
and bury them in the playground during recess just to see how long
they survived without oxygen. You should definitely seek professional
help of some kind even before you check in to the
Institute for Backup Trauma.

Why do I need to backup my trauma?

[Anonymous Coward]

I understand the need for backup, but I think this is going too far ...

Thank you

[MisterSquid]

Dear PowerMacG4:

I found the informational video on ambulatory mortosis [fredandted.com] to be quite traumatic as I realized the dramatized symptoms correspond to the symtpoms my wife has been having for last five years.

Of course, I am also relieved as this explains why it has been so difficult to bring her to orgasm. For a while, I was starting to question my manliness. I suppose once Prudential pays my life insurance claim, I'll go to Vegas with my new girlfriend to forget those 5 lost years.

Thanks, PowerMacG4. I owe you.

Re:Mentioned in the LangaList

[Ciaran_H]

You just proved your own point - it's LiveVault, not FileVault. ;-)

I do get what you mean though.

Re:Moderation

[bergeron76]

You forgot: .28 % Blood Alcohol Level of "Zonk" at the time of posting this article.

Irony

[TrippTDF]

I just realized that as I'm reading this thread, I'm sitting on two days worth of backup tapes.

Re:How the hell did they get

[bscott]

To quote (as best I can) Eric Idle:
"John Cleese used to say he'd do anything for money, so I offered him a pound to shut up. He took it."

At one time or another in his life, he's done just about everything - movies, TV, books, stage performances, the list goes on - brilliantly. As much as I'd like to see him chained to a desk and forced to write more of my favorite stuff, I think he's earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants for a quid... even crap movies like this [imdb.com].

Re:Any alternatives?

[ewtrowbr]

Me. I am the competitor. lol. $ grep /backup /etc/fstab /dev/hdb1 /backup ext3 noatime 0 0 /dev/hdb2 /backup/archive ext3 noatime 0 0 $ grep /backup /etc/fstab /dev/hdb1 /backup ext3 noatime 0 0 /dev/hdb2 /backup/archive ext3 noatime 0 0 $ grep fri /etc/crontab 1 23 * * mon,tue,wed,thr,fri root /usr/sbin/backup_home 50 23 * * mon,tue,web,thr,fri root /usr/sbin/scrub_backups 30 23 * * fri root cp /backup/`date -I`.tar.bz /backup/archive $ cat /usr/sbin/backup_home #/bin/sh DATE=`date -I` BACKUP_DIR=/backup/ /bin/tar cvf $BACKUP_DIR$DATE.tar /home /bin/bzip2 $BACKUP_DIR$DATE.tar exit 0 ewtrowbr@adfleet-svr Avails Reports $ cat /usr/sbin/scrub_backups #!/bin/bash REMFILE=`ls -t1 /backup/*.bz2 | sed -e '1,5d'` for FILE in $REMFILE ; do rm -f /backup/$FILE; done; exit 0

Re:Moderation

[Anonymous Coward]

Jerking off in an airplane bathroom doesn't make you a member of the Mile-High club.

That's a Big Disk

[Anonymous Coward]

trouble is, nowadaze he only does floppies.

meh-Campfire.

[Anonymous Coward]

"Only in our American cars, which we know (from Hollywood) have a tendency to blow up without fail in a massive fireball as soon as they leave the road."

Unfortunately, none of them are SUVs.

Re:And now for something completely crappy

[wowbagger]

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Interesting

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Underrated

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Troll

"YOU RONG! YOU SUCK!"

Flamebait

(see Troll)

Offtopic

"Me not like your response to me post about thing not in story."

Overrated

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