I’ve been on this new project at work for the past two weeks or so, and I’m actually really into it. I basically get to redo part of my company’s backup system, as well as migrate us off of old hardware. It should be nice working w/ new equipment, new operating systems, and FASTER equipment instead of some servers that are less powerful than my desktop computer! Putting out fires on those legacy systems was becoming unbearable. It rules that my company is looking at I.T. as a profit center instead of a cost. For instance, we’ve got a tape autoloader that’s been in production for about 5 years, that was on it’s last leg probably about 2 years ago. It had two drives at one point, and the second has been repaired so many times that I’ve stopped calling in for service on it, it’s just considered *dead* at this point and we’ve been limping along on one tape drive. I ran a full backup this weekend on the new system, and it finished in half the time, and used about a 1/4 of the media that it would have under the old system. Back to work I go

[Listening to: Mother Father - Dave Matthews Band]