A case of the Mondays

When I came into work today, the NAS storage device was down. I see a note on it that says not to turn it on.

Basically, it is a RAID 5 array of drives and 1 of the drives failed. While rebuilding the array, another drive was having parity errors and the rebuild was failing.

We have no backup solution (SURPRISE!) but we were able to boot and grab a backup of everything and we are doing it again. Not many people put all their stuff on the NAS but enough do.

It is a great Monday so far...

No backups? Man, this sounds like my company. Good luck getting everything up and running.

Nice Office Space quote .

I could really spew the line about how you should always backup your data... but I guess you already know that.

How did the end result go?

We got all the data back. We just need to rebuild the NAS. It is just work, not anything major to be done.

Well at least it worked out fine in the end.

It is worse than that. There are so many problems with this Dell NAS that we are eyeing getting rid of it.

We need to perform an image restore using (get this) not just any USB thumdrive, but it has to be a DELL USB thumbdrive! The unit will only work with Dell drives!

Isn't that just plain stupid? And you can't put bigger or smaller drive in the unit and it can't do Raid 0+1 or Raid 6 or even Raid 5 with a spare drive.

Stupid Dell.

Sounds like I've missed alot. oO''