@ThoriumBR this is where automation + triple checking is good :D

measure twice cut once and all that

and/or backing up to a staging folder then moving things if possible

it' s difficult to automate when the db is oracle 11g, the server runs redhat 6.4 or 6.5 and the hipervisor is 3 generations backlevel...

and the operator is a dba "promoted" to syadmin overnight without any training at all

frowns in "everything is a java wrapper around putty and shell scripts"

it's a mainframe storage subsystem, so no java and no shell scripts...

oh the java was client side

cause literally there were about maybe 10% of the team who knew which end of a bash shell to hold

you know what? the server side on IBM mainframe storage IS a java applet!

yup

CURSED

and we had to keep an ancient windows xp with an ancient firefox and ancient jre to access it

it was running on a vm, but come on... a million dollar disk storage and you had to keep a vm to access it...

putty? yuck

ever since m$ added OpenSSH Client/Server as a stock "optional feature for windows" I have been using that through PowerShell for all the things

proper ~/.ssh/ folder w/ proper ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 keys and proper ~/.ssh/config

no more of this putty_private_key.ppk bullshit

@CaffeineAddiction TIL

today I used winget for the first time... feels nice...

lol, did I mention m$'s optional OpenSSH Client/Server also comes w/ scp natively ...

and it works both directions

yah, winget is pretty good

chocolatey is pretty good too

I ran winget update and saw several programs that I downloaded and could be updated