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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tape monkey</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="TANSTAAFL.html" title="TANSTAAFL"/><link rel="next" href="tar-and-feather.html" title="tar and feather"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tape monkey</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="TANSTAAFL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="tar-and-feather.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tape-monkey"/><dt xmlns="" id="tape-monkey"><b>tape monkey</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A junior system administrator, one who might plausibly be assigned
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to do physical swapping of tapes and subsequent storage. When a backup
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needs to be restored, one might holler “<span class="quote">Tape monkey!</span>” (Compare
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<a href="../O/one-banana-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">one-banana problem</i></a>) Also used to dismiss jobs not
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worthy of a highly trained sysadmin's ineffable talents: “<span class="quote">Cable up
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