Whirling doom
Sep. 14th, 2005 12:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueDo you ever get that feeling, that doom is whirling overhead? I do. Because this place has been 'in a bit of a state' for a while now. Nothing _specifically_ wrong, just damn near everyone busy. This means things start ... slipping. Falling behind. Not getting done.
And in systems admin, this means disasters waiting to happen. Just had my first - data recovery from 3 days ago. Filesystem hasn't been backed up for 5 days.
Unfortunate that.
Problem is, there's more 'things'. Not specifically backups, but stuff that has just slipped down to-do lists. Because 'it'll wait'. And wait, and wait, and wait, and the jump out on you on a really crappy day, and beat you with a stick, because you screwed up.
And you know you screwed up. Oh yes. You _didn't_ check that thing properly, and you went on holiday with not enough free tapes in your backup library.
Sometimes, shit just happens.
Other times, it gets built up until you get an explosion.
And in systems admin, this means disasters waiting to happen. Just had my first - data recovery from 3 days ago. Filesystem hasn't been backed up for 5 days.
Unfortunate that.
Problem is, there's more 'things'. Not specifically backups, but stuff that has just slipped down to-do lists. Because 'it'll wait'. And wait, and wait, and wait, and the jump out on you on a really crappy day, and beat you with a stick, because you screwed up.
And you know you screwed up. Oh yes. You _didn't_ check that thing properly, and you went on holiday with not enough free tapes in your backup library.
Sometimes, shit just happens.
Other times, it gets built up until you get an explosion.
