How Buffalo saved my company

[dopaz]

   

First a little background.  I used to use a WD External harddrive to save my company's weekly backups on.  On friday, while installing another T1, the phone technician stole it from my server room.  (Took the power supply and everything, not an accident).  I discovered this on monday.  I was going to just buy another external harddrive but next to them was a Buffalo LinkStation Pro Duo.  I decided to go with that instead even though it was more expensive.  Brought it to work, plugged it in, tested the file transfer speed, then set up the weekly backup to start Friday night as usual.

Friday afternoon, we had a catastrophic server failure.  Both the primary and seconday drives fried when the server's power supply took a dump.  This was of course before the backup.  I spent Saturday trying to recover anything I could.

Suddenly my heart stopped as I realized I had no backup (thanks to the tech stealing my backup copy).  Our company was doomed.  Monday would roll around and we would have thousands of angry clients.  Our only source of income and records was gone.  I told the owner "It's gone" he asked "what?" I said "Everything."  He turned a few colors, got in the car swearing a long streak and tore ass out of the parking lot. 

I went in to the server room to think, saw the brand new Buffalo sitting there and decided to see if I had copied anything on to it yet.  Nada.  Kind of in a daze franticly thinking of something, I meandered through the file structure of the Buffalo while I racked my brain.  Suddenly, there in the Trash, was the file I had used to test the Buffalo...

I had backed up the server to the Buffalo to test whether it was able to perform the duty as my new backup drive.  After the test I had deleted the one-time backup as I wanted space for the weekly that was to start Friday night.

 

Recovered the deleted file, restored the server, called the boss.  Kept my job (and the hundreds of employees that work for us) and kept us from being sued out the yin-yang by our thousands of clients.

 

Bonus material: FINALLY got a budget to get real servers, UPS, Raid out the butt and a new rack to hold all the new toys.  I have a proper backup system now.  I still have the Linkstation for other purposes as it is my Lucky Charm.  It is bolted to the concrete with a lock in case I need another T1 installed.  I am looking to get the TeraStation to "help" my lucky little LinkStation.  I guarantee that from now on, I am always keeping a lucky Buffalo in my server room.

 

No, I am not "with" Buffalo, hell, I haven't even registered it yet...

 

[JoshC]

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