Dead machine count from Saturday up to 6.

[theweaselking]

"Uh, dude? 'Just stick that drive in a different machine and recover the data' may be a LITTLE harder than anticipated."

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[thornae.livejournal.com]

Ah, one of those days. Perhaps the chaos gods of IT are punishing you for that "Why isn't it Friday yet?" post...

And honestly, who spends their Saturday going "Ooh, I wonder if the workplace scheduled outage finished early? Let me just check."...?

The powered-off failures are interesting. Power surges, you reckon, or just bad luck?
Anyway, I think I'll make sure that if I'm ever in such a situation, the protocol will be "Power off and cords yanked, and I'll come in and plug the critical boxes back in when they're finished."

Valuable lessons through the misfortune of others - there's probably a word for it in German.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

No idea if it was power surges or just crap luck. But I think power surges.

(and it wasn't "check if the outage ended early", it was "the UPSen texted us to tell us power was back on, just like they texted us to tell us it was down". I wisely ignored the text as "probably a fluke, not really relevant, I'm sure as hell not doing this early.")