Three Mile Island

Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, the Titanic, the Challenger, and the list goes on and on and on of classic and monumental meltdowns and crashes. Now you can add the St. John's server to your list. That's right, our main home server (domain controller) went into critical and utter death yesterday. I think that it was the worst day of my life as everyone looked to me (whose fault it wasn't) when the last 15 years of their files were lost when Solomon (nice name for a server) imploded. It has been pure hell as all home directories, permissions, network accounts, etc... are all gone. And of course this is a WELS operation so we operate our entire 5 server, 55 terminal+ school computer system on $19.99 per year and volunteer manpower, so to fix it isn't exactly easy. To boot, we were in the process of building a back-up domain controller that was days away from being built and backing everything up. I'm one who kind of knew this would happen, so I only lost about a months worth of stuff, others weren't so lucky.

The ironic part is that I was just saying to Cathy the other night that we had a lot of files on our home computer with really no back-up. So I ordered a Maxtor 300 GB external hard drive to back-up my home computer and I was going to take it over to school... well, it arrived today. Anyway, it is working pretty slick, I'd recommend it.