Apr 14, 2006 | blog
We got in around 9am this morning and found there were several issues from the night team. It’ll make for a long day for the other side of the house, but they usually are able to get around hardware handicaps.
We’ll hopefully be testing several restored systems by late morning or early afternoon, but we have until tomorrow morning to finish up. With only about 4 hrs of sleep for the team, they’re doing well.
Its unfortunate that there are so many hardware issues in this test, the vendor is working with us to figure out what is wrong. The last two tests we’ve run have had flawless hardware execution, everything was configured correctly and ready to go. This is the first test in a year that has had HW issues, and not small ones either.
Oh, well, 23hrs to go. 🙂
Apr 14, 2006 | blog
I know its early, early Friday, but we’re still on “Thursday” night…
Ok, its been a long day, and we’re getting ready to head out for today. But we’ll be back tomorrow at 9am to continue!
Things are looking good, we’ve restored a client PC with the full corp. image. Exchange was successfully restored (but needs to be tested), and the VPN systems are on their way back as well. The Unix systems are also on their way back up and will be ready for testing sometime tomorrow morning.
All in all, good bunch of work so far. Thanks, to everyone for all the work!
Apr 13, 2006 | blog
Today has been an example of things that can go wrong. While I was back at the office for a few hours getting my comptuer reimaged, our tape backup library was being ‘obstinate’ to be kind. So we’re about 3.5hrs behind schedule, but knowing our team, we’ll make some of that time up – we all have a few tricks up our sleeve!
My computer is back up and running, and I’m going to follow what I did for my home system. A clean minimalistic system that only has the software that I really need to get the job done. Not sure what caused the issues I saw earlier, but I’ve dumped the previous build and started from scratch.
Now to wait for the data to be restored.
Apr 13, 2006 | blog
I was connected via VPN to the office when it blue screened. I’m back to the office to correct the issue and prevent it from happening again.
Something with the personal firewall I believe. Time to re-image and get back to work!
Apr 13, 2006 | blog
We’re off and running!
I have had some issues getting connected back into the office, I’m using my T-Mobile MDA to VPN into the office wirelessly. It is working, but not as fast as I had hoped. Speed is currently ranging from 60kbps to 80kpbs, so it is a bit slow. I’m still hoping to get better than 100kbps sometime during the test, though VPN over EDGE service is working!
