No informative links today, no time to look for informative stuff! Here’s a week in the life of your NEKLS tech folks:
Power Outage takes down NEKLS services – emergency action needed to keep all 20 785 KanREN libraries internet up.
Power Outage kills DNS server. Not discovered ’til next day. KanGuard affected. Phone rings off hook.
New DNS server put in place – running whole new version of BIND. Eek!
KanGuard server moved to rack – some interfaces don’t come up (but are not discovered ’til next day) minor emergency ensues.
Public Library hit by lightning, network equipment and automation server affected. No good backups. Perform emergency data recovery on HD from old server and recover automation data. Hooray!
All that in 3 days! Sheesh. I’m ready for the weekend. 
Comment By: Dave Hernandez
August 19th, 2005 at 6:21 pm
Don’t complain! Welcome to the real world. Don’t be weeds. Be good seeds! Think of all the library patrons you impacted today.
Comment By: Liz
August 20th, 2005 at 12:18 pm
Who’s complaining? Just ready for the weekend is all.