OK, i'm sitting on a train departing at 7:29. it's kinda pissing me off, given that this is, after all, a freaking friday. so i'm feeling just a tad peevish.
my train won't pull into my station until around 8:36--according to the schedule, at least. yeah, right...that's so gonna happen. mm-hm.
what kills me of course is that there was no way that this could have been avoided, i don't think. and it's all the damned new server's fault.
we've been running a jury-rigged network set-up for the past half-year or so. it was intended as a stop-gap measure. but the boss kept putting off pulling the trigger on the decision to buy the server. every time he did, i knew he wouldn't actually make a decision until something forced him to take it seriously. well, that finally happened: we can't do something critical for a new customer w/out the added horsepower the new server would provide.
now, i'm what passes for an IT department in my office of 6 people. i'm not an IT guy. i'm a relationship manager. i can wear the IT hat for a little while, but honestly, it just doesn't work well b/c while i can do general PC support, or even in some cases some trickier things, i just don't have the kind of in-depth knowledge you need to fill that role properly. no, that's what we've got our consultants for.
now, when you move everything from one server to another, this normally requires some downtime. in a windows network, you have to add all the machines to the new server (domain). OK, no big deal. however, windows has a really delightful little quirk: it's too damned stupid to know that when you do such a thing, a user on that computer has to have all of the files associated w/ him or her to the new domain as well*.
be that as it may: do you know how much data a user can put on a machine in just a year? i don't know about anyone else, but i had to move around 12 gigs of data. that's 12000 megabytes. why is it necessary to move everything and chew up the hard drive even more?
and do you know how long it takes to copy that much data? to the new server? OK, that was a rhetorical question but if you didn't know, don't ever try moving that much data onto a USB drive. ever. only heartache can possibly be the result.
and why o why is it so all-fired important important to make this process so painful and slow? or for that matter, why in the world would anyone want to put a user's personal documents on the local hard drive of the user's PC instead of on the server by default? you know, a server? something that routinely actually catches the back-up process that your server does?
there's a bottle of gin w/ my name on it. and mr. bottle and i are gonna get very well acquainted tonight.
gah!
ed
*i need a M$ geek to explain to me why in the hell that makes any gorrammed sense whatsoever, and further, why it's necessary for windows to throw everything specific to the user in so many different damned places. what kind of network admin has never had to migrate domains, esp in a large network? you would think that w/ the corporate world's tendency to reorganize, they would make such a thing painless, wouldn't you? damned redmond marketing geniuses...
silverwhisper posted on Dec 08, 2006
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CreativeWoman said on Dec 09, 2006....
((((Ed))))
You've had a hard day. I wish I could help with suggestions, but I am worthless in that area.
I hope you and Mr. Bottle have a better evening.
CW
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lioneljay said on Dec 09, 2006....
Ed, I wonder if your time with Mr. Bottle was at least half as satisfying as you hoped. I've gone through parts of the process that you described here and so I've a small sense of the headaches that you endured.
I hope that Monday's work goes better and that your migration was fully successful.
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silverwhisper said on Dec 09, 2006....
thanks, CW and LJ. the evening began w/ a bottle of beaujolais nouveau, so that helped a lot, as did my wife allowing me to continue to seethe during the car ride home from the train--which was a full 20 minutes behind schedule for reasons unknown to anybody.
but yes, it was a restful and relaxing evening. thanks, guys!
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Mamie said on Dec 09, 2006....
dearest ed, I don't have a friggin clue what you were talking about about I have a pitcher of "soulcasters" left over from my open house if you need one...best, Mamie -
soulreaver said on Dec 09, 2006....
well, the classic saying applies... do you: live to work or work to live?
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silverwhisper said on Dec 10, 2006....
mamie: thanks, i was partaking heavily.
soulreaver: welcome to my blog! i work to live, most assuredly. i'm in the process of running a job search actually so the frustrations are just compounded as you might imagine.
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raft said on Dec 10, 2006....
SW: My condolences. I've done that myself a few times about an eon ago (haven't done much Windows specific stuff in a while).
FYI. You mentioned migrating everyone to the new domain. I think that's where you made your mistake. You should have had your new server become a secondary DC to the old one. Migrate everything, then you would have removed the old server leaving the secondary to become the primary by default. There's more to it and I'm not sure what it is exactly (it's been years).
I'm glad that you got to relax and enjoy your weekend after all.
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silverwhisper said on Dec 11, 2006....
i'm not sure what the process entailed precisely. i'll have to check.
good to see you here again, raft. :>
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PAPERBACKWRITER said on Dec 11, 2006....
Hi Ed,
I hope you are feeling better.
You could count me in that wagon of job search: I hate the friggin guts of my new boss and I barely started!
*sigh* I am being diplomatic, still. For this reason I am communicating with my said boss via email, to have facts on paper - so to speak.
I seem to have a knack of having superiors, who can lie through their teeth, at birth....hey have you heard that some babies are born with a couple of milk teeth already? *goosebumps*....LOL....just want to make you smile....but I read that fact though.....er, better finish off...
Good luck with the search, and I think you have more than enough people here in SC to cheer you on.
Warm regards, Paper~
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raft said on Dec 11, 2006....
SW: With the new job coming and xmas shopping nowhere near done and the kids not behaving in the stores.. it's been busy and not exactly lots of time to log on.
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