Tin Foil Soldier

I took a vacation day on Friday, and it was good I did because Thursday night after work I tried to authenticate my xbox to my storage array and it just kept failing.

I go to check on the domain controller and get no response via the network.  Shit.  I go downstairs to the server rack and the screen is black with the horrid words “NTDETECT FAILED.”

double shit.

the hard drive was dead and there was no recovering it, I tried everything.

Triple shit.

my last backup was 4/11/2007 from before the last time I tried the upgrade to 2003-SP2.  Fortunately there was no other server to tombstone it so I replaced the laptop hard drive and reinstalled windows.  That was enough for the night, i needed a drink and a movie so phil and i watched Shooter.  Friday, after some little issues, I did a full restore to how my domain was in the beginning of April.

delete a few accounts, add an account or two, rejoin melchior, balthasar and gehirn to the domain and I am all set.  Now i need to decide if i want to just schedule backups more often or if i should set up a replicated domain environment.