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Circuit Chuckles · Daily comic

Offline Backup

Published Thursday, 20 August 2026 · By Security.io

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In a four-panel black-and-white newspaper comic, Glitch confirms that the emergency backup is offline while Rusty proudly points to an unplugged tape drive and then treats the failure to restore from it as proof that it was tested.

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Rusty interprets an untested offline backup as successful because it cannot restore while unplugged.

Transcript

Accessible reading order
  1. Panel 1 — Glitch: Is the emergency backup offline?
  2. Panel 2 — Rusty: Completely.
  3. Panel 3 — Glitch: Can we restore from it?
  4. Panel 4 — Rusty: Not while it is offline.
  5. Panel 4 — Glitch: Then we should test it.
  6. Panel 4 — Rusty: You just did.