Backups my person daemon

I swear that backups are the bane of my existence. There are about 900 other projects on the board to get done but the backup system just keeps deciding to throw something new at me every week.  Right now I’ve got a new DL380 G4 chassis running with BackupExec and a Spectra T50 Tape Library attached to it.  At the end of last week a drive went bad in the backup server and this weekend the robotics in the T50 decided to lock up and decide I need to call support in order to get it fixed.  Oh yeah I didn’t happen to mention that our support notification papers were getting sent to our old hosting facility so apparently support has expired on the library a few months before I took over the position.  It doesn’t look like it will be very hard to get that back in order, but it yet another things to add to the fun I’ve had with backups.

Documentation on the other hand is starting to come along, it’s a slow process and I’m finding some old things that were documented here and there and working up some new documents to put on the wiki we’ve established.  I cleaned up our wiki a bit and tried to add some organization but it needs a lot more time, I’m thinking that is another thing that will be on my list is to do once things calm down a little bit aren’t quite so hectic.

The proxy servers are working out better than I had hoped at this point, and with three of them pushing out 10Mb of traffic this past afternoon it’s really obvious why we needed them.  They could use some more fine tuning but I don’t think anything is going to help the 150 million gadget requests for bad images we get per day (grrrrr).