I assigned null as the backup device. Backups completed in record time

@da_667 BOFH issue #1. A favorite

@da_667 my personal favorite was “freeing up space in the user’s home directory “

@da_667 when will people wake up and realize that null is not a renewable resource?

@da_667 one of these days we are going to exhaust the last byte and you’ll all be sorry.

@da_667
Backup into the null
Scream into the void
Stare into the abyss

@ajn142 @da_667
Pretty sure he's adding bytes to null, so he's at least trying to solve the problem.

@da_667
I compressed my files using md5sum.
Backups have never been smaller.

@da_667 "It's backup day today so I'm pissed off. Being the BOFH, however, does have it's advantages. I reassign null to be the tape device - it's so much more economical on my time as I don't have to keep getting up to change tapes every 5 minutes. And it speeds up backups too..." https://bofh.bjash.com/bofh/bofh1.html