Brilliant Backups That Kept Data Alive For Ages Landed Web Developer In Big Trouble
The Register, Monday, March 16th, 2026
Client omissions caused the problem, so guess who was thrown under the bus
The world of work can be thankless, which is why The Register tries to brighten up the Monday return to toil by bringing you a fresh installment of Who, Me? It's the reader-contributed column where you confess to your IT screw-ups and tell us how you got away with it.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Neil" who told us he maintained a website for a client he suggested we call "Gerald."
"He would send changes, I would do updates, and he would approve it," Neil wrote. "We had years of smooth sailing."
"Until the day Gerald called, furious. The website was wrong, he said. Old content everywhere."