And for the hat trick, today the backup server broke! It stopped backing up to LTO2 tape, so I restarted it. After restart, Retrospect corrupted it's config file meaning it lost all scripts, backup set info and schedule info. So as of 1pm today, no servers are being backed up. User data is fine as that's on another server.
Left work early to come home and research backup options. I'm opting for new server hardware with 5TB of storage which is more than enough. Backup daily to that, take weekly snapshots to a LaCie NAS box, then backup to LTO2 tape for off site archives. Cheap too at £2200. Also looked in to Internet backup, but thats £2500 for only 1TB. The 5TB solution will centralise the storage of backups too, instead of spreading them round a load of Buffalo NAS boxes.
So lets recap:
1) The print server breaks Friday due to a corruption when the other tech installed a driver. Fixed that Saturday.
2) Censornet, for banning kids' Internet access, refused to let any students access the web, then said it couldn't connect to it's internal database on restart. That will not be fixed until 1/2 term.
3) Superstore, for server backup, stopped backing up to tape, then trashed it's config file on restart. Apparently according to Dantz/EMC, this isn't uncommon. To be fixed ASAP, if not, sooner.
To think, 12 hours ago I was updating the firmware on some dataloggers blissfully unaware what was to go wrong next...
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