A day in the life of...

[IanF0729]

...a Windows user. One of our servers died. We needed files, hence the McGiver-like attempt to get at them.

I dislike Palm Beach County greatly.

🙄

If we had been using Macs, I doubt this would have happened.

 

[iGary]

Western Digital drives?

 

[macOSX-tastic]

looks like a dirty dirty mess. persuade your people to get XServes.

🙄

S

 

[IanF0729]

Western Digital drives?

Yes, actually. Two little 8GB disks. In all fairness, these were very old...why they were holding valuable data I have no idea.

Honestly, the Snapper had EDO RAM in them! I nearly choked.

 

[FSUSem1noles]

...a Windows user. One of our servers died. We needed files, hence the McGiver-like attempt to get at them.

I dislike Palm Beach County greatly.

🙄

If we had been using Macs, I doubt this would have happened.

Here in Broward County, we're 90% Mac... if not more.

I absolutely love it!! 😀

 

[IanF0729]

looks like a dirty dirty mess. persuade your people to get XServes.

Heh, they poke fun at me when I start working on my iBook, XServes are not in the picture.

 

[IanF0729]

Here in Broward County, we're 90% Mac... if not more.

I absolutely love it!! 😀

Do you work for the county or a private company?

 

[quicksilver77]

Why woudl this have not happened had u been using xserves? They are hard drives? Are they not? Do xserves have some magical data system to never have drive faults? Why didn't u back up the data on DAT or DVD or god you know...RAID? Why bash a windows server.

 

[IanF0729]

Why woudl this have not happened had u been using xserves? They are hard drives? Are they not? Do xserves have some magical data system to never have drive faults? Why didn't u back up the data on DAT or DVD or god you know...RAID? Why bash a windows server.

'Cause I was frustrated - bashing Windows always seems to help. Of course XServes would be just as likely to end up with a bad HDD.

I didn't back data up because I assumed our IT department was doing that...like they do with our other servers.

😛