Friday, June 27, 2008

Friday 5pm

It's 5pm on Friday. You are a few hours out from a massive migration of data between SANs. The planning for this has been rough, but it is starting to look sane.

That is until you discover right then that no-one has mentioned before the size of the disks you'll be getting from the new SAN is different to the old one.

It's not like that would be an important detail.

This is Friday 5pm for sysadmins.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Gah!

No, I cannot burn your 50GB of data to 'a DVD'. Even if my regulation issue company brick had a blueray disk burner, I'd still have to get the data back to it through may layers of VPN and NAT that at some points only manages to pass data at slow internet speeds. This is just a silly idea, honestly. Buy a real backup solution.