Yeah, off-site backups would have been nice. Have you ever read Dilbert? Sometimes the voice of reason gets bludgeoned to death by the pointy-haired boss - or in this case a couple of them who just happen to have empty pockets (couldn't even find lint in there) and even emptier brains.
Some companies aren't fortunate enough to have large hardware budgets. In fact, smaller companies operating on a shoestring are lucky to even afford the minimal hardware for day-to-day operations, much less setup a RAID server.
As mentioned in the SAOTY submission, everyone else walked out of the burning building with their desktops - the sacrifice is that Sean took out the backup server to safety and let his own personal computer burn up in the fire. Yes, by personal I do mean that the company did not even provide a computer for the job. So, it was either take the RAID out or face telling 20 people that that was their last day of employment. The personal computer was where all our digital music (all legal I might add) was actually kept.;-)
And just to give a scope of how devastating this fire actually was, noone in that building was allowed back in to salvage anything due to structural instability. Everything whether it might have been salvageable or not was bulldozed over. Without that backup machine, there would have been no hope picking the company up out of the ashes.
Some sysadmins have to work with what they are given. When you are given very little - in terms of hardware, budgets, and even a competitive salary - you have to make the best of things and just make it work.
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Amen to that! Smoking hot with the smoke inhalation to prove it. :-)
Don't call him an idiot - just a wage slave that rather enjoys the benefits of a paycheck.
Yeah, off-site backups would have been nice. Have you ever read Dilbert? Sometimes the voice of reason gets bludgeoned to death by the pointy-haired boss - or in this case a couple of them who just happen to have empty pockets (couldn't even find lint in there) and even emptier brains.
Some companies aren't fortunate enough to have large hardware budgets. In fact, smaller companies operating on a shoestring are lucky to even afford the minimal hardware for day-to-day operations, much less setup a RAID server. As mentioned in the SAOTY submission, everyone else walked out of the burning building with their desktops - the sacrifice is that Sean took out the backup server to safety and let his own personal computer burn up in the fire. Yes, by personal I do mean that the company did not even provide a computer for the job. So, it was either take the RAID out or face telling 20 people that that was their last day of employment. The personal computer was where all our digital music (all legal I might add) was actually kept. ;-)
And just to give a scope of how devastating this fire actually was, noone in that building was allowed back in to salvage anything due to structural instability. Everything whether it might have been salvageable or not was bulldozed over. Without that backup machine, there would have been no hope picking the company up out of the ashes.
Some sysadmins have to work with what they are given. When you are given very little - in terms of hardware, budgets, and even a competitive salary - you have to make the best of things and just make it work.