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I am very tired. The work is still not done. My legs hurt, my eyes hurt, and my feet hurt. I am going to rest for a few hours (give the tape time to spool some more data off) and then get back to work.
I miss Sarah.

Mike and Rachel are meeting me for dinner. They are my saviors.
In other news, I am getting about a 55% compression ratio. This is good as it increases the possibility of me fitting 30GB of data into about 16GB of space.

Watching a backup tape unspool onto disk and moving chunks of data from one box to another every now and then as it spools off is not fun. Especially when you are staving, and doing it alone.

Today has not been a good day at all.

About three years ago, at my place of employment, another department managed a system that we'll call SHIT. SHIT ran on a mainframe and was very old. On top of this, it cost a lot of money to keep up and most of the functionality of it had been replaced by newer systems. The group [...]