OMG! Drive crash at work!
OK... so I'm sitting here doing work... la-la-la... WHAM!!!!!!!! Our documents server is gone. And I look in my email and see this:
Hi All,
Please be advised that the LVIATHAN2 server - aka USLVIATHAN2 aka the K drive - has suffered a complete failure and cannot be restored.
I have been advised by the Desktop Support group that nothing can be done to recover the data - it is gone.
The GSC has been informed to not open any more tickets and to close any that have been opened.
I have no more details at this time.
I was also informed that LVIATHAN1 has reached its life cycle as well and can fail at any moment - therefore - I advise anyone with files on that server to move them asap.
As I hear more info I will keep you posted -but I am being told that the chances of recovering anything from LVIATHAN2 are nil.
OMG! This is absolutely crazy. And some follow-up emails only confirmed that our company's out-sourced-tech-support is absolutely worthless and crap! They originally just said "Sorry, we can't recover your stuff" even though everyone knows that they (are supposed to) take nightly backups of the server. When faced with that they said, "Oh, well, we need a whole server to restore to, and we don't have any available." Which MUST be bullcrap, I can't believe that a backup plan would be that faulty... especially in a billion-dollar company like this. What crap.
Well... at least I have some personal backups I made a couple months ago (may have one from a few weeks ago too, I have to look at home)... Take this as a lesson -- SAVE YOUR WORK IN TWO PLACES AND BACK-UP NOW if you haven't backed up in a few days.
Hi All,
Please be advised that the LVIATHAN2 server - aka USLVIATHAN2 aka the K drive - has suffered a complete failure and cannot be restored.
I have been advised by the Desktop Support group that nothing can be done to recover the data - it is gone.
The GSC has been informed to not open any more tickets and to close any that have been opened.
I have no more details at this time.
I was also informed that LVIATHAN1 has reached its life cycle as well and can fail at any moment - therefore - I advise anyone with files on that server to move them asap.
As I hear more info I will keep you posted -but I am being told that the chances of recovering anything from LVIATHAN2 are nil.
OMG! This is absolutely crazy. And some follow-up emails only confirmed that our company's out-sourced-tech-support is absolutely worthless and crap! They originally just said "Sorry, we can't recover your stuff" even though everyone knows that they (are supposed to) take nightly backups of the server. When faced with that they said, "Oh, well, we need a whole server to restore to, and we don't have any available." Which MUST be bullcrap, I can't believe that a backup plan would be that faulty... especially in a billion-dollar company like this. What crap.
Well... at least I have some personal backups I made a couple months ago (may have one from a few weeks ago too, I have to look at home)... Take this as a lesson -- SAVE YOUR WORK IN TWO PLACES AND BACK-UP NOW if you haven't backed up in a few days.