May 15, 2003

tape monkey

n.

A junior system administrator, one who might plausibly be assigned to do physical swapping of tapes and subsequent storage. When a backup needs to be restored, one might holler Tape monkey! (Compare one-banana problem) Also used to dismiss jobs not worthy of a highly trained sysadmin's ineffable talents: Cable up her PC? You must be joking — I'm no tape monkey.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:27 AM

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