Innocent Techie Jailed For Taking Hours To Fix Storage
The Register, Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
Hello, hello . what have we here? One very dangerous storage admin, if I'm not mistaken
As Friday rolls around, The Register knows many readers are a little fatigued. Which is why we use this day to bring a fresh instalment of On Call - the weekly reader contributed column we hope amuses you enough to shake off a week of tech support torpor and traipse into the weekend with a smile on your dial.
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Julian" who specialized in maintenance of big tape libraries - the sort of thing with fancy robotics to move tapes in and out of multiple drives.
Libraries of this size were so capacious they were usually shared resources, so finding a moment in which all users were happy for downtime was never easy. Julian was therefore often called out for big jobs that involved both maintenance and repairs.