queenbookwench | (no subject)

Some of you may remember the work-related computer issues that made my work-life hell around this time last year. The short version is: a massive network crash erased our backups (and everything else) and I had to reconstruct my entire library database: book cataloging records, patron records, everything. I was going to start doing my own backups, but I was assured that there was no need, that they had fixed everything that was wrong and nothing like that would ever happen again. Like a fool, I believed them. Fastforward to this December, when a tech team came in to make a "smooth," "seamless" transition from our old, overburdened server to a new server. Hah! The transition has been anything but. My book checkout software has been down before Xmas, and the tech person who was just working on it said that there is a possibility that I may lose my database _again_. Please send prayers or good thoughts or whatever that this won't happen, because I'm not sure I can deal with this again. I am never going to trust another word out of the mouths of a technician or administrator at this school, and if this happens again, they're going to have my resignation on the table at the end of this school year.

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After nearly losing a huge chunk of my MFA thesis right before it was due, I've learned that you always back up your data.

I hope you don't have to redue the database, but even if you do, you've survived it before and I'm sure you'll survive it again.

Thanks for the good thoughts! I am definitely starting backups fucking immediately, especially now that I know it is a much less complicated process than I thought it was.

Oh, OUCH. Evil techie/administrators.

Would you happen to be going to the DC ALA conference in June?

Yep, I definitely plan to be at ALA!

Oh, excellent! I'll be there!

Cool! I'll have to introduce you to my friends

gwynraven and cool-but-LJless Eboni. I knew you were a librarian, I think, but somehow I had forgotten.