Amusements in small ways.
May. 10th, 2008 10:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueWe have a backup server, and a whole load of tapes in it.
Recently, because ... well it's useful for troubleshooting and stuff, I wrote a set of scripts that 'did test things'. Like, loading the same tape in each drive, and checking they all got the same volume label.
That kind of thing.
Anyway, I could have used an arbitrary random tape to do this, but it amused me to pick on a particular number. So I picked on tape '666'.
My workmate just yesterday, was a little bit creeped out at just how often that number was showing up in our logs. I didn't tell him why.
Recently, because ... well it's useful for troubleshooting and stuff, I wrote a set of scripts that 'did test things'. Like, loading the same tape in each drive, and checking they all got the same volume label.
That kind of thing.
Anyway, I could have used an arbitrary random tape to do this, but it amused me to pick on a particular number. So I picked on tape '666'.
My workmate just yesterday, was a little bit creeped out at just how often that number was showing up in our logs. I didn't tell him why.
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