I woke up a bit earlier than usual today, got out the door earlier than usual, and as I was getting off the bus on the way to work my pager went off.

The Quantum Snap! Server crashed, hard. This means no network storage for the entire building. As I write this, it’s still rebuilding its RAID array, after which I’ll let people back onto the system. A helpful technician at Quantum walked me through gathering a few reports that I then emailed for analysis; hopefully I’ll get back from them some sort of procedure by which I can prevent this from happening again.

Not, mind you, that I’m holding my breath. Computers are evil. If you’ve been at this for as long as I have and don’t yet know this, you need to get into another line of work.