Yeah I seem to run into this kind of "I should change my career" event once every five years or so, although this event isn't nearly as stressful as being at a client (these down systems are at %dayjob%) and having a RAID5 card die and thinking "I don't even know how the RAID volumes were configured, this setup pre-dated me...", this on their primary SBS server.
The worst in my 15 years was P2V-ing a different customer's SBS server with Hyper-V, then about two months later when I rebooted the host, SCVMM (MS's fancy VM manager) tells me "No virtual machines found"... Current status of my disaster: I have 5 of 6 servers back up and 95%+ back to normal, not too bad for 12 hours of work...or is it? The last server is low on the critical list, I believe I will not suffer a heart attack this day. Dave -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 9:16 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: How'd this for a bad day? AKA bad me On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 5:51 AM, David Lum <[email protected]> wrote: > I have 7 production systems ... Oh, boy. Fun. I've had days like that. Not many, fortunately (and knock on wood). Hope you get it all sorted out in time for the weekend! Today I find myself having to arbitrate a pooch screw regarding important procedures, and thus get everyone's story and try and make sense of it all. I feel like I'm playing the cop in a police interrogation scene. I much prefer dealing with recalcitrant machines than people. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
