The tape saga
Oct. 6th, 2005 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueThis morning, I am greeted with this:
It means, that my backup processing has stopped, pending me giving it new tapes.
Which was how it was yesterday, and I have managed to squeeze a little further.
What this means, more or less, is no more backups until I get new tapes.
Which by best estimate is Friday/Monday. Friday is tolerable. Just. It means my backups are screwed (again) this evening, but the weekend monthly backups will work. Monday isn't. 5 days without a backup on one server is a problem, on an entire site it's a nightmare.
My only silver lining is _this_ one I couldn't have avoided.
The irony is, somewhere like eBuyer would have some for me next day.
And now I may have to go for a drive to buy some tapes, because I've been stalled for nearly two weeks.
I think as soon as I get this lot, I'll put in an order for another 50.
Then I might have a chance of getting it before I actually _need_ them.
Inject Free Media atl_p7000_0 D_U04OS_LTO Backup Inject Free Media atl_p7000_0 D_fs010_LTO Backup Inject Free Media atl_p7000_0 D_BV01_LTO Backup Inject Free Media atl_p7000_0 D_fs005_LTO Backup Inject Free Media atl_p7000_0 D_fs011_LTO Backup Inject Free Media atl_p7000_0 D_fs010_LTO Backup
It means, that my backup processing has stopped, pending me giving it new tapes.
Which was how it was yesterday, and I have managed to squeeze a little further.
What this means, more or less, is no more backups until I get new tapes.
Which by best estimate is Friday/Monday. Friday is tolerable. Just. It means my backups are screwed (again) this evening, but the weekend monthly backups will work. Monday isn't. 5 days without a backup on one server is a problem, on an entire site it's a nightmare.
My only silver lining is _this_ one I couldn't have avoided.
The irony is, somewhere like eBuyer would have some for me next day.
And now I may have to go for a drive to buy some tapes, because I've been stalled for nearly two weeks.
I think as soon as I get this lot, I'll put in an order for another 50.
Then I might have a chance of getting it before I actually _need_ them.
