Hosed

[twilight33]

Safe mode is no longer functional and prospects of hard drive recovery are apparently slim.

Back from scratch as due to a long story of transition & 'who's on first?' between the two departments I've worked for, my files that I thought were being backed up nightly... weren't.

If it was my own computer that died & I didn't make sufficient backups it'd be one thing, but this has me pretty pissed off as I have lost very important payroll & human resources data that I have no easy way to recreate.

Comments

This may seem petty and spiteful....

[tim-wright.livejournal.com]

.... but I would suggest that those dimwits who failed to maintain adequate backups on your system (hello? this should be funadmental in an institutional setting) have their data restored last. And, of course, until that data has been restored and properly verified (could take months, years, given your workload, you know?) you won't be able to answer basic questions like if they have any vacation or insurance benefits, nor exactly what their proper salary schedule is—but you'll be happy to open a ticket for them.

Either that or give them the option of being run through both eyes with a hot poker.

Sheesh. I feel for you, I really do.

Re: This may seem petty and spiteful....

[twilight33]

Ah, but said dimwits aren't even in my scope since that dept is separate from ours. Then again, having to deal with the person who does theirs is torture enough so karma works...

Thankfully about 90% of my work is on web-based applications so I'm quite functional. The 10% that may be lost is several years to current data in hiring, compliance, FMLA and other confidential crap that is too painful to think about. Losing my carefully crafted email address book is a minor annoyance in comparison.

My colleagues are immediately pulling through to provide me with what I need for here forward which is nice though.

[northwardbound.livejournal.com]

Oh, massive ugh-ness :( I totally understand where you're coming from with the 'I'd be ok if it were my personal machine and I screwed up'. I don't even think we *do* any backups on our machines at werk...which reminds me that maybe I should start actually start moving stuff I want to be sure to not lose to my home computer via thumb key, since I actually do back up my home box.

I hope something is salvageable!!

[twilight33]

Given your IT monkeys I wouldn't be surprised if backups are a foreign concept! Even though things are supposedly set up on my new box that they should be, I'm not sure I trust mine anymore.

[nlguy.livejournal.com]

:( That really sucks. Tim's friend John didn't touch your computer, did he?

[twilight33]

I hope not, we'd have a serious security & compliance violation if he was anywhere near it!