Following up on the excitement of the other night, here’s some more fun and frolic at Ye Olde Office:

• Remember how the Snap! server died during the power glitch? That was my main backup device, followed by tapes (which I trust much less than I do a nice set of spinning drives). I now have to run tape backups directly off of the main fileserver. There’s no live standby from which to easily pull files, and I have to hope that the tapes themselves are okay. I’ll have to start doing partial restore tests I suppose… when they give me the time. And heaven forbid somebody important needs something important restored from those tapes. Bleah.
  
• Guess what I found out today? The version of Tapscan (the main sales software package we use) currently installed has a major glitch, and the new version won’t be ready for months! I get to spend the night at the station tomorrow! Yay! I’ll be going from computer to computer all through cubeville and through various sales managers’ offices and so forth, uninstalling the Tapscan client on each. Let’s see, 60-some-odd computers, that shouldn’t take more than… all night, right? Oh, but then I get to install an older version of the software and make sure it installs and runs okay! Yay, fun. Let’s not forget sticking around for at least a few hours the following morning to troubleshoot any major issues.
  
• I’ll be escaping from that hell midday on Friday after putting in what could be a thirty-hour day, only to return on Sunday morning, bright and early. Why? For another round of attempting to make correct AS/400 backups. We tried this last weekend with only partial success, and we must have a complete set of backup tapes ASAP before we can proceed with upgrading the server. Which, of course, they want to do ASAP.

And that’s just the three biggest issues that have come up this week. Don’t you wish you had a job as grand as mine?