Oh, Friday, you betray me!

[daemonluna]

Over the summer, I have Fridays off. (But I work every other weekend, so it still means alternating one day and three day weekends.) Right now, I'm kind of glad of that fact.

Two weeks ago on Friday, we had a server crash at work. By Saturday morning, we had internet, email, and our library system up and running, but no access to the network drives. Come Monday, tech services discovered that one of the drives was fried, and the most recent usable backup was a month old. Yeah. Ungood, and wreaked havoc with many things including doing the timesheets to make sure we all have, oh, I dunno, our paycheques?

This afternoon, I get a call from work. The library is closed tomorrow. Why? We have no electricity and won't until late Saturday afternoon. Um. Okay then. I am not complaining too hard, because really, day off with pay! (However, I did actually have stuff to get done.) I'm curious about what exactly happened, though...

And I'm kind of worried about two Fridays from now. Fire? Flood? Famine? Plague of locusts?

Comments

[guyindkny.livejournal.com]

I vote for rain of frogs.

[paige-eliz.livejournal.com]

It's been a bad couple of weeks for libraries - the uni's entire system (catalogue, databases) was killed when IT did a server replacement over the weekend. took a week to get the basics working, and we're still waiting on a bunch of the remote access stuff.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Excellent! I think that sounds like the best possible option. It's been at least a month since I've had to deal with live animals in the library. Clearly, it's been too long.

[daemonluna.livejournal.com]

Good lord, what a headache. At least it only took three days to get our server back up and running.

(And I have nightmare visions of what would have happened if the drive we'd lost had been the one with our patron records on it...)