We finally got around to getting a tape drive to backup all our stuff here in our office. We keep adding more and more computers with various amounts of storage, but have been limited to CDR for backup. That was kinda making us uneasy, because it’s not really practical to have scheduled backups running to CDR. We were performing ad-hoc backups, probably not frequently enough. So now we have a nice tape drive and a schedule and everything. It’s not quite the 30 tape system that I run at work, but it’s fit for purpose.

The installation process was complicated by wretched Microsoft. As I had to take the server down, I took the opportunity to install a batch of critical security updates (which require a reboot). Big mistake. A nasty bug in one of the updates rendered by server unusable – it wouldn’t boot into Windows even in safe mode. Google Groups provided the fix, but I really could have done without that. The sooner I can move away from Microsoft crap, the better.