life is a horrible nightmare
2004-01-08 : 12:19 p.m.

I strolled into work this morning, all ready for a productive, happy day�only to find the bookkeeper, the Executive Director, and a database guy from the county clustered around the COMPIS server in my office.

The client data file is just�gone. Poof. Gone. NTFS Undelete can�t even find evidence of it having been deleted, overwritten�or even there in the first place. This means that the entire client database for our Case Management caseload is missing. The guy from the county comes out and extracts that data every once in a while, but the most recent export was in November.

And of course, because in this setting, I�m the �computer guy�, they all expect me to be able to fix it. But of course, I don�t even understand what�s happened here. At all.

Incidentally, Dear Reader, this �COMPIS� is the crappy old DOS-based network application I talked about in my last entry. Remember how I said that it ran on a �server� that is a �total piece of shit�? Bingo. Here we are, the inevitable has happened, and naturally everyone has totally forgotten my dire warnings about how we had no provisions for backing up the server and that it would die some day.

*GIGANTIC DRAMATIC SIGH*

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