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[queenbookwench]

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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[queenbookwench.livejournal.com]

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.