The Crash…..

Well it happened! The crash us IS guys dread. First let me say doing backups of data is a serious pain in the ass. They are tedious, difficult, expensive, and even more expensive to do correctly. Nobody ever checks on you to make sure you do the backups, but if something is lost and you didn't do them, they will for sure chew your butt up one side and down the other. NEVER will they come and congratulate you for only loosing a small portion of data. So basically we go through lengths to backup data only to not be bitched at when things not under our control goes bad. Well last night things went bad, way bad. The server with all of our user data on it crashed. It crashed hard. It's flat lined and pronounced. This is all the users email, office files, and personal files. Basically everything we do all day long is saved on this server. Well for a change I had been doing my job correctly so I pulled a sole, solitarily singular tape from nowhere. This tape was my saviour. The backup from Friday morning. Well needless to say damn near 24 hours later we are restored. At least to a point of Friday morning. One day of lost data is much better than a year of lost data. So once again I have single handedly saved the universe. I'm sure I'll see the fruits of my labor in my next pay check. What do you think......