When we remove a website from our servers, we make a back up and put it on a CD. \u00a0Since 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.<\/p>\n
This week, we got a request for a website and I started the task of plowing through the CDs to track this folder down. \u00a0 None of the CDs in the archive had this folder name as part of the label, but we knew it had to be somewhere.<\/p>\n
I\u00a0eliminated\u00a0a few right off the bat, but then I noticed one CD that had \u00a0\/foldername\/ \u00a0 – \/foldername\/<\/p>\n
Which was odd. \u00a0All the rest listed the contents of the CD pretty well spelled out, but the “-” implied that it was a range instead of a list. \u00a0And I\u00a0recognized\u00a0the folders and realized they wouldn’t fill a CD. \u00a0And the folder I was looking for would have alphabetically “fit” between those two folder names.<\/p>\n
I popped the CD into my computer and in seconds I had the files.<\/p>\n
It felt good to make that intuitive leap – and it saved me a massive amount of time. \u00a0I copied the files onto a new CD and delivered it to the\u00a0requester.<\/p>\n
So, I saved the day. \u00a0Does that mean I can go \u00a0home early?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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