You Have Got to Be Shitting Me
What’s the safest place to store your end-of-term essays, notes on said essays and several related articles? On the University network drive, of course. It get backed up every night, it has plenty of space and I can access it from anywhere with an internet connection. What could go wrong?
Well, the drive could go down. And that’s what happened early this morning, it seems. They’re running integrity checks on it now but due to the sheer size of it (student accounts A-K) it will probably take ages and they don’t seem to have any redundancy measures in place (or they’ve failed too). Funny, that - I was completely psyched and pumped to crack on with my essay that’s due at four o’clock tomorrow, and be done by the time I would have to leave to this gig I’m going to tonight. It really seems like the LSE doesn’t like me.
Update: I went to talk to the course convenor about the issue. He had already heard from another student but was awaiting confirmation that it was not an isolated issue. I told him I work part-time in IT services. He remarked “Ah, at the coal face” (a thoroughly appropriate English expression). Not quite, I replied, but I had received increasingly pessimistic estimates by e-mail about the recovery time of the drives. He said he would look into an extension across the board, which was exactly what I was hoping for. I am working on Saturday, though, which means I have to find a way to finish the essay and not miss out on the end-of-term fun.