The totally off-topic thread

[TheRealTMA]

Very lucky tonight.

Installed a secondary external 3 hard drive drive backup system- Drobo (with 2 drive redundancy) which backs up the primary backup this morning. Just then the primary backup started making startling noises. Yep the primary backup failed. No problemo - secondary backup running. And data looks uncorrupted in secondary backup.

The 2 drive redundancy should give me some safe breathing space while I source another Drobo.

Might buy a lottery ticket or have I used up my luck?

There's no luck with backups. There's just good planning. Maybe go and buy another raid 1 backup NAS.

 

[Denali]

I once had to reenter 8mths of payroll transactions because our outsourced data recover vendors found out after I needed them that something stopped working on their side 8mths earlier.

Yeah me.... and cue new vendor search.

 

[JohnK]

Very forgetful today. Backup systems inoperable. Making many mistakes. Bring on tomorrow....

 

[Quickstatus]

There's no luck with backups. There's just good planning. Maybe go and buy another raid 1 backup NAS.

The primary backup was an older direct attached storage DAS.
The new secondary is a Drobo with proprietary Raid with 2 drive redundancy NAS.

I think I will replace the primary backup with a Drobo 2 drive redundancy DAS.

I like the Drobos because they come with a small battery which acts like an APU during a blackout allowing the harddrives to powerdown properly.
Every year at daylight saving in April I replace the hard drives in the primary backup and in the computer and archive the old drives.

I dont have a offsite backup which is the Achilles heel I suppose.

I once had to reenter 8mths of payroll transactions because our outsourced data recover vendors found out after I needed them that something stopped working on their side 8mths earlier.

Yeah me.... and cue new vendor search.

Thats the issue with backups. Periodic checking of data integrity on the backups is very important. Its no use blindly backing up corrupted data.

 

[JohnK]

Life is all about balance right? All about making sacrifices to achieve a goal right?

Mum happy, daughter happy, wife not happy and I have a major headache again....

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

.............. Mum happy, daughter happy, wife not happy and I have a major headache again....

"wife not happy" - Might it have something to do with the fact that the happy greek mother-in-law has her hands on her granddaughter for the first time, and the thai mother doesn't get a look in ! Two very "possessive" mother cultures clashing !! :shock:

 

[QF WP]

Couldn't have said it any better mrs.dr.ron - there is never a perfect set of circumstances, just make sure the majority are happy JohnK. You can't please everybody all the time and don't attempt to either...

 

[Pushka]

Life is all about balance right? All about making sacrifices to achieve a goal right?

Mum happy, daughter happy, wife not happy and I have a major headache again....

That's a tricky situation. Maybe explain to your wife that it is only for a few weeks and make sure your wife gets plenty of alone time with her daughter as well.

 

[Denali]

That's a tricky situation. Maybe explain to your wife that it is only for a few weeks and make sure your wife gets plenty of alone time with her daughter as well.

YiaYia needs to know her place. She might even think shes being helpful but Johns wife/baby are in their 4th trimester (its a real thing) and shes been through a lot and is territorial about her baby. Making the wife happy over the mum should be Johns first priority.

 

[Pushka]

YiaYia needs to know her place. She might even think shes being helpful but Johns wife/baby are in their 4th trimester (its a real thing) and shes been through a lot and is territorial about her baby. Making the wife happy over the mum should be Johns first priority.

Of course the new mum is first priority. It is difficult however when everyone is staying at the same house which I presume is the case here? You all have to get on.

 

[Denali]

You know youve reached a certain age when your online surveys are for bladder control.

 

[straitman]

You know youve reached a certain age when your online surveys are for bladder control.

I was talking with some friends recently and the conversation reached a point where I said 'We are sounding like our grandparents!'

 

[JohnK]

"wife not happy" - Might it have something to do with the fact that the happy greek mother-in-law has her hands on her granddaughter for the first time, and the thai mother doesn't get a look in ! Two very "possessive" mother cultures clashing !! :shock:

Not sure that's the case.

My wife wants to be in Australia. She misses me. In saying that I am not going to torture my daughter by including her in my commute. Also my wife would not have any support in Brisbane which is why we chose Sydney. Our daughter is thriving. She loves the environment and is always smiling and loves to play with her grandparents and uncle. My wife didn't get this support back home in the village.

My focus is on my family's future. I need to plan things better and bring them up to Brisbane every 4-6 weeks. I also need to spend more time with them when I am in Sydney. A little difficult but doable.

 

[Denali]

I was talking with some friends recently and the conversation reached a point where I said 'We are sounding like our grandparents!'

My husband saw a buddy at the shopping centre.

Mate! How are you going? Oh, Ive had bowel cancer and blah blah blah.

Yeah, I was really sick this year and still feeling it and I had surgery on my eyes blah blah blah.... I walked away and later told him that they sounded like two old farts who sit on a park bench every day.

 

[JohnK]

That's a tricky situation. Maybe explain to your wife that it is only for a few weeks and make sure your wife gets plenty of alone time with her daughter as well.

She gets plenty of time alone with daughter. My family know not to intrude and they've been good.

YiaYia needs to know her place. She might even think shes being helpful but Johns wife/baby are in their 4th trimester (its a real thing) and shes been through a lot and is territorial about her baby. Making the wife happy over the mum should be Johns first priority.

Mum is great. She gives my wife the support she needs. My daughter falls asleep in her arms. As soon as daughter has had enough then she goes back to my wife. There is definitely an inseparable bond between the 2 and we all respect that bond.

I think I am the problem or at least the situation I am in. Need to find a solution but not suffer in the process.

 

[love_the_life]

Ah but they are here with you (most of the time) JohnK. That's the great thing. And I can just imagine how loved they are. Such a special time for everyone

 

[Pushka]

So JohnK if you are the problem then what is the issue?

 

[JohnK]

So JohnK if you are the problem then what is the issue?

Finding a solution that will keep everyone happy?

 

[QF WP]

Pushka, I think JohnK eloquently summed it up here:

I think I am the problem or at least the situation I am in. Need to find a solution but not suffer in the process.

He's based in BNE during the working week, in a job that he doesn't really enjoy (particularly some of the people IIRC) but I don't think he has ever been able to find a similar job in SYD needing his skill set. Thus trapped in BNE as he is the main bread winner. Being back in SYD is preferable, but not at the expense of being unemployed.

Bringing his wife (and daughter) up to BNE every so often will increase his expenditure (okay, one one ticket cost as daughter under 2, but it's still an expense he didn't have previously).

The joys of being married and parenthood - your old way of life generally changes. Woe betide if it means JohnK can't play as much golf

 

[coriander]

Can't get this song out of my head now

https://youtu.be/x9FzkrJYU6s

OMG! The moustache, hair, lapels, flares, thin bod, was exactly me in the 70s.

That track then followed by "One Way Ticket", then "Rasputin"............. be still my beating heart!