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At least that is the way I feel sometimes.
Even though my position within IT was terminated causing me to move on to greener pastures, it seems I can’t seem to shake some of the former job responsibilities.
Over the weekend, the hard drive of our database server decided that it had had enough and wanted to be retired — so it simply decided to stop responding.
Fortunately, I had a spare server that I hadn’t shipped back to Cleveland yet and I’m glad I hadn’t as it came in very handy. First, the OS was already present so all I needed was to instal MS-SQL, configure it, then restore data.
Well… it certainly doesn’t seem to take very long for old knowledge to begin trickling away. I did struggle today getting thing back online, but a couple of hours away from the problem I was able to come back with a clearer head and resolve the problem.
So now… We have a much better server in place than what we had — EVEN though, the replacement machine is a “retired” machine! Tells you how lame our production server is… er, was.
Went from a PIII, 800MHz machine with 512MB RAM and a 40GB HDD running MS-SQL Server 2000, to a dual processor Zeon machine running at 2GHz with 2GB of RAM, and 300GB+ of RAID 5 disk. Amazing, isn’t it?
Fortunately, this setup will only last for another 6-8 weeks when we FINALLY transition the remainder of the server to corporate resources in our data center. Perhaps it will finally be THEN that I can shake these old responsibilities. That day can’t come soon enough.
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