Our readynas came to a screeching halt early this morning. This meant EVERYBODY was screaming they could not access their files.
All day of moaning, wailing and gnashing of teeth was the high point. Thank goodness we have a support contract. They finally got it up and running because we were at a loss.
Yes we have backups -three of them. But it would take just as long to restore 3TB of data and re-setup the NAS if longer. Faster to try to fix it.
He he ... welcome to the world of being support engineer ...
Some sheite always blowing up ... I know why its called shiite ...
Cool.
Buddha.
And now i know why so many IT guys i know are semi druggies lol. cause theyd need some help dealing with the bullshît that always ensues. or they end up like buddha ranting about some off the wall topic lol
Well, our IT guys have had a mongrel week...
Earthquake last week, Friday (5.7) and then another on Sunday avo (6.5) - office closed for structural assesments - implement the business continuity plan...
All nighter driving 30 Laptops + 20 workstations machines down to our partners office which was cleared for occupancy (Wed morning), another 2 days of running out of IP addresses, setting up printers and getting CAD workstations running (wed + thur).
Back in the office this morning (Fri) - time to pack all the temporary items up...
On the plus side, had Monday and Tuesday to give the bike a 10,000km service...
Man that's gotta suck... I feel for you guys with the earthquakes... a horrid time the last few years!
We had a parity error on a RAID group in a storage array a few years ago... and we have a storage virtualisation engine on top which striped the parity error across the whole array... spent a few weeks restoring about 150 servers for customers... the first week of which was 24/7 rotating shifts.
Some servers weren't backed up either so had to be rebuilt from scratch :dunno_white:
Nothing worse than rebuilding servers from scratch - and finding out what services were actually running on the machine until a week later when finance tries doing things...
Know of a few servers that are mystery boxes, no one knows what they are doing - one DEC box that is running access control for a building. the software uses the Motherboard + HDD + NIC to keep the license active.. one of these days it will fall over and the access control will stop working..
Makes me glad somedays that I dont have to delve too deeply into IT for work..