The backup server
I was working for a Car Rental firm in Australia that rhymes with "Nifty".

The computer systems were a mess and I'd come in as a consultant. The backup server stopped working and was duly dismantled so disks etc all removed, it was Friday, we reached quitting time and announced "We'll finish the job on Monday".

Over the weekend there was a major power cut and when it came back up several servers (that had been long negected) threw the toys out of the pram and hard disks were lost.

Of course with the backup server dead too lots of databases and programs were lost permanently. Including the one that matched all the speeding ticket/parking fines back to the customers.

SO we were facing about a months worth of speeding and parking fines for the whole countries worth of rental cars with no way to charge the right customers. Bugger.

Never "leave it till Monday".
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 11:02, 1 reply)

File Server Cannot Be Found
I was working a weekend instead of leaving until Monday and I was working on a knackered Novell server.

So I rigged an ethernet cable from the server to a test switch that only I was patched into and started to see if I could find what was wrong.

IPX client says "File server cannot be found"

Odd thinks me so I beetled off back into the poky server room to see what was wrong.

"Ah! That's the problem. Somebodies nicked the fucking server!!"

I looked out of the open firedoor (Open because I'd opened it as the room was too hot - no air-con) and saw a scruffy type manhandleing my server into the back of his boot!

I let him have it. It was shagged anyway and I wasn't going to risk fisty-cuffs for something that wasn't even mine. Insurance paid for a new one - after I'd jimmied the lock on the fire-door that is....

Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Mon 29 Oct 2007, 11:25, closed)