Today is not being a very good day for me
I was stressed going to work this morning
The job i am working on is a pure bollox
I was supposed to be BBQ’in tonight but the english have stolen our weather
Im not a happy camper.
To expand i am working on restoring a server that died. It has been replaced, and the retoration has actually gone quite well except for the fact that the data is 30 days old! a fellow engineer suggests that perhaps a retention period was enabled! We cannot check as the old server is FUBAR! I am not a happy camper
This really highlights the over complexity of backup softwares. The differences in terms let alone approaches between backup software is crazy. What seems to be completely intuitive in say Arc Serve flies in the face of say Backup Exec. Backups, along with printers remain my pet hates in the world of IT. The errors both areas produce are complex at the best, down right ancient sumarian at worst!
What are your options in this crazy world? Very few. Backups are an absolute requirement unless you want to go down the pan! So get to grips with your backup, and keep it up to date! and test it, oh lord test it. And keep a monthly backup offsite!
This last week ive been finding myself under stress. Thanks to a number of issues in work and at home, my stress levels have simply gotten the better of me.
Yesterday as soon as i got into my van i could feel tightness in my chest, and as i was going from job to job, i found that the tightness was dissipating as things went right, but the second there was a sniff of a problem, man that tightness was right back
Why am i this stressed? Well last week i had some major issues with a site and the Conficker worm. Long story short, it dragged on, and i began to question my technical skills. What was really needed on site was the ability to stand back and look at the overall situation. I did find the solution, but made some small errors while pushing to get the issue resolved made me really question my choice of career, like leaving a small desktop switch turned off, then pulling out hair trying to figure out why the owners pc wouldnt connect to the network!
So last night i had a dream. In it i deployed from start to finish 4 Windows XP Pro PC’s, straight from creating an unattend file to adding service pack 3 after the install! I mean i dreamt the entire thing like a freakin MS best practice webcast! Thats just not right!
Now that just isnt right!
