Saturday, September 03, 2005
Adventure 35: Monday 7th September 2005
Adventure 36: Monday 7th September 2005:
“yeah I set it up, what ya gonna do about it…..”
Lo all again…Well it started sooo well didn’t it…nope cre8 that actually was a dream….
Saturday 5th September 2005:
14:00: Checking in on the backups…which seem to be taking forever…what I discover I’m not best pleased with…basically as a result of my illustrious Portuguese leader the backups are now taking twice as long as normal since now the servers are completely filling up with SQL server initiated backups…one server with a database size of approximately 20GB is actually backing up 110GB and taking 3 hours to complete into the bargain…not happy…so begins the email war of words.
14:30: I email Nunob and ask why it is we seem to be doing this when the software we have is more capable of doing a better job of it.. The response I get basically threatens my job, and we mustn’t implement knee jerk reactions when it comes to backups…didn’t I know that “until last week no one cared about SQL backups” and “until last week no one knew how to do SQL restores”… all of which I take exception to, that coupled with “I might have to dismiss the person who set it up in the first place” and I’m beginning to get very very angry, not only has his actions (not for the first time) meant that I have to baby sit the backups to stop them from running out of space, but now he’s threatening my job and contracticting himself into the bargain…ah well…;-)
Monday 6th September 2005:
I’m in with a spring in my step, no Nunob, but I’m still pissed about his emails, and I’m a bit barky with Brenty, apologies for that matey..
Not much else to report, thanks to my weekend efforts, the weekly duplicates are finished way ahead of schedule…god I’m good.
Tuesday 7th September:
Sorry forgot to complete this bit...it's been that busy..what with applying for jobs and babysitting the backups...see the next blog, coming soon.
“yeah I set it up, what ya gonna do about it…..”
Lo all again…Well it started sooo well didn’t it…nope cre8 that actually was a dream….
Saturday 5th September 2005:
14:00: Checking in on the backups…which seem to be taking forever…what I discover I’m not best pleased with…basically as a result of my illustrious Portuguese leader the backups are now taking twice as long as normal since now the servers are completely filling up with SQL server initiated backups…one server with a database size of approximately 20GB is actually backing up 110GB and taking 3 hours to complete into the bargain…not happy…so begins the email war of words.
14:30: I email Nunob and ask why it is we seem to be doing this when the software we have is more capable of doing a better job of it.. The response I get basically threatens my job, and we mustn’t implement knee jerk reactions when it comes to backups…didn’t I know that “until last week no one cared about SQL backups” and “until last week no one knew how to do SQL restores”… all of which I take exception to, that coupled with “I might have to dismiss the person who set it up in the first place” and I’m beginning to get very very angry, not only has his actions (not for the first time) meant that I have to baby sit the backups to stop them from running out of space, but now he’s threatening my job and contracticting himself into the bargain…ah well…;-)
Monday 6th September 2005:
I’m in with a spring in my step, no Nunob, but I’m still pissed about his emails, and I’m a bit barky with Brenty, apologies for that matey..
Not much else to report, thanks to my weekend efforts, the weekly duplicates are finished way ahead of schedule…god I’m good.
Tuesday 7th September:
Sorry forgot to complete this bit...it's been that busy..what with applying for jobs and babysitting the backups...see the next blog, coming soon.
# posted by cre8 @ 5:16 PM 
