magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

I was working from the central branch of the Brooklyn Public Library this morning. It didn't take long for the fluorescent lights to get to me though. I did find that when I ventured outside, the shade and the (strong) breeze actually made the plaza out front very pleasant. I also found out that I had received a half dozen calls and messages about avocado being down, with what seemed to be a major hard drive crash.

The most recent backups were from a few months ago at best. And even those couldn't be gotten at with the machine offline. The techs on site were going to see what they could do, but this had the potential for being the worst server crash since we lost marsh.li.com back in 1997 or something.

The afternoon was tense. Then a call from Austin with good news. The drive won't last forever (a few months perhaps?), but they managed to get it back online. Now it's time, or in a few weeks when the summer semester is over, to really get on to moving data and services to crabapple.

Backups, backups, backups, people.