Sleep? Who needs that?
I had my first small taste of what it's going to be like as a unix sysadmin last night: my first overtime shift.
"Okay, just boot dooku into single user mode, and we'll remove the old drive volumes, and permanantly mount the new ones. After that we'll sync all the data. Should take about five minutes."
But for whatever reason, the volume manager was refusing to save the new metadevice entries in the database, so after reboot, we'd lose the new drives.
"... Okay, well, this is a Solaris 8 box that we've never patched, so lets run all the recommended patches."
At 12:30am, the patches are finally done (four hours later) and we still don't have our new RAID array. At least the system is back up and working (the patches don't seem to have broken anything) so we just call it a night and go home :p
I fear we'll probably discover today or tomorrow that something HAS broken, but we still need to finish the patch run anyway (about half of the 200 patches failed).
So... somebody remind me what I'm doing in this job? :p
(Nah, kidding. It's actually kind of fun)
"Okay, just boot dooku into single user mode, and we'll remove the old drive volumes, and permanantly mount the new ones. After that we'll sync all the data. Should take about five minutes."
But for whatever reason, the volume manager was refusing to save the new metadevice entries in the database, so after reboot, we'd lose the new drives.
"... Okay, well, this is a Solaris 8 box that we've never patched, so lets run all the recommended patches."
At 12:30am, the patches are finally done (four hours later) and we still don't have our new RAID array. At least the system is back up and working (the patches don't seem to have broken anything) so we just call it a night and go home :p
I fear we'll probably discover today or tomorrow that something HAS broken, but we still need to finish the patch run anyway (about half of the 200 patches failed).
So... somebody remind me what I'm doing in this job? :p
(Nah, kidding. It's actually kind of fun)