Just Imagine.

[Mike Labosh]

Some fool drives a car through a phone pole during the night, which kills
the power to the whole town, and the several terabytes of servers that we
have here don't even have redundant power or a backup generator or anything.

And we had several gigs of inserts and updates running. So now all the
databases are wrecked, we get to mop of the mess, and since the overnight
backups weren't performed, all the users on the system now in the middle of
the work day have to compete with the backup jobs. I feel a "team meeting"
coming on.

Tell your bosses to avoid this.

 

[Dodo]

Some fool drives a car through a phone pole during the night, which
kills the power to the whole town, and the several terabytes of
servers that we have here don't even have redundant power or a backup
generator or anything.

Why not UPSs with auto shutdown?

 

[Mike Labosh]

Why not UPSs with auto shutdown?

One would think it should be that simple, but I just think our MIS
department is retarded.

 

[Guest]

An organization big enough to have an MIS Department, and no UPS's on the
servers? You should put a bug in the Bosses ear- What other MIS things are
being incompetently managed?

 

[Mike Labosh]

An organization big enough to have an MIS Department, and no UPS's on the

servers? You should put a bug in the Bosses ear- What other MIS things
are
being incompetently managed?

A whole big long list of MIS things. A month ago, some doofus tripped a
circuit breaker and all the servers disappeared. Exchange, SQL, IIS, File
Server with 60 gigs of MDB files -- everything.