Life Is Not Purgatory
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
Catastrophic Data Loss
... three words that strike fear into anyone who has a clue.
At 3:00pm yesterday afternoon, the file server at my hotel suffered a one in a million failure of the main drive and the mirror which has resulted in a massive and irreparable loss of data. While our IT person was able to retrieve data from an uncorrupted backup – that backup was around 11 months out of date, destroying every document and application installed/created/modified and stored on the file server since September 2006.
Fortunately, through an EXTREMELY fortuitous circumstance, my new auditor performed the night audit on a different station 5 days ago and the backup was stored locally on that machine. Which meant we only had to jury rig four days of transactions from the time the server came back up (and remained stable), and 7am this morning… which would have been much easier, were I not in Spruce Grove. However, I am extremely happy with the leader of my Front Office team, who pulled an all-nighter acting as my eyes, ears and hands for almost three hours over the phone. It worked and although I have about a weeks worth of work just fixing the jury-rig waiting for me… that is the least of my problems.
I am leaving for K-Country this morning, and walking into a nightmare… God help me.
... three words that strike fear into anyone who has a clue.
At 3:00pm yesterday afternoon, the file server at my hotel suffered a one in a million failure of the main drive and the mirror which has resulted in a massive and irreparable loss of data. While our IT person was able to retrieve data from an uncorrupted backup – that backup was around 11 months out of date, destroying every document and application installed/created/modified and stored on the file server since September 2006.
Fortunately, through an EXTREMELY fortuitous circumstance, my new auditor performed the night audit on a different station 5 days ago and the backup was stored locally on that machine. Which meant we only had to jury rig four days of transactions from the time the server came back up (and remained stable), and 7am this morning… which would have been much easier, were I not in Spruce Grove. However, I am extremely happy with the leader of my Front Office team, who pulled an all-nighter acting as my eyes, ears and hands for almost three hours over the phone. It worked and although I have about a weeks worth of work just fixing the jury-rig waiting for me… that is the least of my problems.
I am leaving for K-Country this morning, and walking into a nightmare… God help me.
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