When we remove a website from our servers, we make a back up and put it on a CD. Since we’ve done this a lot, we’ve got a lot of CDs – but we rarely get requests to track things down and recover them.
This week, we got a request for a website and I started the task of plowing through the CDs to track this folder down. None of the CDs in the archive had this folder name as part of the label, but we knew it had to be somewhere.
I eliminated a few right off the bat, but then I noticed one CD that had /foldername/ – /foldername/
Which was odd. All the rest listed the contents of the CD pretty well spelled out, but the “-” implied that it was a range instead of a list. And I recognized the folders and realized they wouldn’t fill a CD. And the folder I was looking for would have alphabetically “fit” between those two folder names.
I popped the CD into my computer and in seconds I had the files.
It felt good to make that intuitive leap – and it saved me a massive amount of time. I copied the files onto a new CD and delivered it to the requester.
So, I saved the day. Does that mean I can go home early?