Had such a rough night and day!

So early hours 3am, I had was called by my previous employer, I knew this was bad! As it seems now they want me back but personally I don’t want to work there! 

So yesterday there was a disaster at my old job, they called me to the rescue as the new so called IT Guy decided to destroy everything, I mean everything from Virtualised infrastructure to users data and everything else!

I have been up for nearly 24 hours, I was called out been here since 3am I am still currently here. 

I have not eaten and only drunk black coffee, I am so stressed right now. I have never been in this situation and never want to again. 

I got there to access the situation and I thought what the f**k I don’t know what to do myself! I then started going through backups for hours then discovered that backups were missing!

All Virtual machines were deleted. At this point there was no internet 

I did not know what to do now, I was panicking as I was called in to fix what was a disaster and they had faith I could do this, then I had a brain wave, I started going through Cloud Storage backups and found all backups were there from yesterday. I started to restore the Virtual machines and found that the iSCSI SAN has been reconfigured and incorrectly configured, so I stopped restoring, i reconfigured the SAN, once online I then started restoring all 150 Virtual Machines, still in progress…..

I then managed to get the crucial Services online, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP but then found the Scopes being corrupt from the backup, this isn’t good, I had to reconfigure everything from scratch which I managed to do but don’t know how I did!

Once I got all the crucial services back online, I then had to fix the ticketing system as that backup was bad!

I managed to get most of it online but I told my ex employer I’ve had enough of this now, I need to sleep I’m fatigued and I’m moody and I just feel like going mad! I mean mad. He wanted me to carry on, so I did. 

Moral of the story I am still here after hell and I didn’t not know where to start, I was scared that I could not do this. I actually thought I couldn’t. 

I had to come up with a master plan on something I have never experienced before. I felt so useless infact I felt so useless I knew I couldn’t do this. But I managed to.

It’s not all sweet roses working in IT it’s sometimes fun and sometimes it’s nothing but bad!

There is one thing I have learnt from this is that I thought I couldn’t do this but I could, I didn’t even know I could put some master plan together so quickly. 

I need food and I need sleep! But I guess I have to carry until it’s all done, I would order food but of course I am not allowed to on these premises!

The fact I am still scared because what if I have something or missed something crucial! I don’t want to let them down, I’m finding it hard to think straight as I’m terribly fatigued!

Hey ho it is what it is!