MetaChat - Working late! Our email server crashed at work. Hard-drive went kablooey

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05 June 2007

Working late! Our email server crashed at work. Hard-drive went kablooey Hey this is my first post. The email server at the office crashed at 3pm. Now I have to restore it onto a new HD from the backup tapes*. This is gonna take a while. So I thought I'd drop you all a line while I wait for the tapes to be copied.→[More:]

*Last backup made 1.5 hours before meltdown. Thank you backup software. Fuck you crappy HD

As a bonus, here's a murder ballad

post by: chillmost at: 11:58 | 16 comments

And, uh, gee, next time I'll read the instructions so that the rest of the text lands "after the jump".

posted by chillmost 05 June | 11:59

one of the admins will fix it for ya, man.

posted by jonmc 05 June | 12:00

like it never happened.

posted by arse_hat 05 June | 12:02

I needed a good murder ballad today. Thanks, chillmost. I'm selfishly glad your server crashed.

posted by mudpuppie 05 June | 12:04

Murder ballad bonuses are always appreciated.

posted by iconomy 05 June | 12:07

New bunny! Someone get the lube.

posted by mike9322 05 June | 12:24

Oh man... I've been there. There is no way to make an admin's blood run colder than to say "Where are the tapes of the mailserver, and how old are they?"

Because when the mailserver crashes and mail gets lost, it's never the fault of the Finance department for having trimmed the backup budget in favor of the holiday party. Oh no. It's the fault of the poor sucker who has been dutifully trying to cram 30 gigs of message attachments (usually word docs and spreadsheet attachments in finance dept's mailboxes) onto a wheezy tape drive purchased sometime before Clinton left office.

Sigh. Good luck, and remember:

Up & Down, Never Across.

posted by Triode 05 June | 13:01

It's taking fooooooooooreverrrrrrr.

I'm hungry and I'm out in the middle of nowhere rural Germany and there is no place to get something to eat around here. I might have to raid the lunch room fridge and steal someone's yogurt. If there's nothing there I will have to eat my hand.

Then I'll have to type slower.

posted by chillmost 05 June | 13:09

(actually, chillmost is an old pal of mine prom back in the day, so...make the initiation doubly painful BWAHAHAHA!)

posted by jonmc 05 June | 13:22

Okay, then forget the lube.

posted by mike9322 05 June | 13:28

YOu better watch out. I just ate someone's Wurst.

posted by chillmost 05 June | 13:32

someone's wurst what?

posted by jonmc 05 June | 13:33

I just ate someone's Wurst

lulz!

posted by lonefrontranger 05 June | 15:36

WooHoo! I fixed the server, went home and then went and got drunk. Now I'm gonna see if my girlfriend wants to play hide the Wurst.

Lustig, oder?

posted by chillmost 05 June | 16:29

you naughty naughty bofh.

posted by dabitch 05 June | 17:15

I like chillmost already. Welcome bunny!

posted by Luminous Phenomena 07 June | 22:49

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