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The law of least astonishment and backups

A recent twitter posting by Matt over at Standalone Sysadmin reminded by of the law of least astonishment.

If you’re not familiar with this law/principle, and you work in IT (not to mention backup!), you should be. Over at Wikipedia, it’s defined thusly:

[W]hen two elements of an interface conflict, or are ambiguous, the behaviour should be [...]

January 15th, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: Architecture, Backup theory, General Technology, General thoughts, NetWorker | Leave a comment