eventually
now playing: the never-ending whistle of an adaptec SCSI card indicating that it isn't happy with its RAID configuration
...which would indicate that i'm at work, since i don't really use SCSI (or RAID, for that matter) on any of my machines at home...
maryann called me this morning to let me know that the UNIX server that hosts our manufacturing software had crashed, and - since she's not what she considers to be hardware-savvy - she wanted to know how long it'd take me to get here.
so i threw some clothes on and brought my barely-awake, as-yet-unshowered-from-the-previous-night's-carpetlaying ass to work.
that was 5 hours ago.
right now, we're doing a sector-by-sector copy of the RAID array (since we finally managed to get one of the striped sets ressurected) with Ghost, and then she's going to do a full restore from the backup...hopefully, that'll get us back up and online.
why are we cloning an array that refuses to boot up?
don't ask. not that you probably would, anyway...
but - it's all good. we're almost finished with the cloning portion of the show, and then we should be able to restore the backup and get on with our lives...until tomorrow, anyway. it's looking highly likely that we may end up in here tomorrow as well, but that depends on the outcome of this evening.
until the new drives are here and we manage to rebuild this array, though, i feel like i'm living in one long test of the emergency broadcast system.
and this is, of course, exactly what i had in mind for this weekend...i'm sure my kids are sitting at home thinking, "yeah, some fuckin' "welcome back from vacation" weekend, huh...."
not that i'd blame them. that's precisely what i'd probably be thinking, were i in their place.
after X number of instances of this, i wonder...at what point do you pass the point of diminshing returns in the "i'll make it up to you" column on the ledger?
i'm not certain that, in jackson browne's words, "i passed that point long ago"....
yea, tho many obstacles might litter my already cluttered path, i shall prevail...eventually.
...which would indicate that i'm at work, since i don't really use SCSI (or RAID, for that matter) on any of my machines at home...
maryann called me this morning to let me know that the UNIX server that hosts our manufacturing software had crashed, and - since she's not what she considers to be hardware-savvy - she wanted to know how long it'd take me to get here.
so i threw some clothes on and brought my barely-awake, as-yet-unshowered-from-the-previous-night's-carpetlaying ass to work.
that was 5 hours ago.
right now, we're doing a sector-by-sector copy of the RAID array (since we finally managed to get one of the striped sets ressurected) with Ghost, and then she's going to do a full restore from the backup...hopefully, that'll get us back up and online.
why are we cloning an array that refuses to boot up?
don't ask. not that you probably would, anyway...
but - it's all good. we're almost finished with the cloning portion of the show, and then we should be able to restore the backup and get on with our lives...until tomorrow, anyway. it's looking highly likely that we may end up in here tomorrow as well, but that depends on the outcome of this evening.
until the new drives are here and we manage to rebuild this array, though, i feel like i'm living in one long test of the emergency broadcast system.
and this is, of course, exactly what i had in mind for this weekend...i'm sure my kids are sitting at home thinking, "yeah, some fuckin' "welcome back from vacation" weekend, huh...."
not that i'd blame them. that's precisely what i'd probably be thinking, were i in their place.
after X number of instances of this, i wonder...at what point do you pass the point of diminshing returns in the "i'll make it up to you" column on the ledger?
i'm not certain that, in jackson browne's words, "i passed that point long ago"....
yea, tho many obstacles might litter my already cluttered path, i shall prevail...eventually.
posted by tom at 17:05
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