travis' brain dump

Ok, this week is by far the busiest week I think I have ever gone through, PERIOD! 

For the record… It’s never good when you’re doing a MAJOR deployment of a company DR/Backup solution to have your counterpart on vacation… This entire week has been one thing after another, lol. If it hasn’t been the rush of things breaking it has been the constant workload trying to get this solution deployed. Nothing like juggling the usual issues rolling in with the deployment while having two people in your office for half the week. 🙂

And in case you ever wonder…. CommVault Galaxy + Exagrid = abso-friggin-lutely awesome! Nothing like doing a backup that took you 50+ hours to tape in less than 24 for the first backup then using synthetic full’s being able to complete all backup jobs to disk in less than 5 hours from there on out. We’ll still have to see how the tape portion moves this weekend but it should be a lot better considering we have dedicated connections between the storage point and the tape devices now. So far I’ve gotten our Denver and Tulsa offices online. That only leave 5 more to go, LOL. All in all it should be pretty quick now that we have the system all figured out.

I’ll be so glad when this is all deployed… Then we can sleep at night. 🙂