Monday, August 20, 2007

Upgrade , backup and restore

Filenet servers for Nestle were being upgraded on Saturday and Sunday , so my presence was required for emergency . I reached office at 1:30 pm on Saturday . Shyam told me that upgrade has failed and we will be rolling back . It was PE that failed to upgrade . I have yet to see the error which caused PE unable to connect to RDBMS .

Now i know that i will not be required as we have not changed anything in AE , still i had to be there till everything is completed and tested properly . So i waited while CE was being restored to previous version . After 4 hours we were informed that restoration has been done , so the support team checked CE but CE services were down .

So while the support and backup team were working on restoring CE , i watched Pirates of Caribbean 3 . Finally we were able to bring one node of CE up but i have already spent 27 hours in office without any sleep . We checked all scan stations and AE . Everything was up and working . i was pretty sure that now everything is fine so i decided to go .


so lesson learned from this was that while making backup make sure that it will work fine . and sometimes upgrade does not work

i enjoyed working at night , spending whole day without sleep . After many years i saw sun rising in the morning , birds flying and transition from night to day .

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Flag and Bus





On 15th , i thought that i should be more active and decided to watch some movie . I thought "Harry potter and Order of phoenix " will be fine . PVR was showing it . So i went to Garuda mall .While i was waiting for bus , i saw many children waving tricolor .It was everywhere . every fourth auto had a flag . Many buses had it . and some motorcycles also had it . I was surprised to see so many flags everywhere .

There was a flower show at Lalbagh . Even from bus i can see thousands of people in and around Lalbagh .Because of traffic bus stopped many times and it took me more than two hours to reach Mayo hall .

I know that i will not get ticket for "Chak de India " . But as harry potter was released last month, i was hoping for it . When i reached Garuda mall , i saw that it is Inox and PVR is at Forum . As i was in no mood to travel more , i decided to have lunch there and come back .

But there was one problem , like Abhimanyu i know how to go from my place to mayo hall but dont know how to come back . So after waiting more than half an hour for the bus i decided to do what i do in such situations . i walked up to MG road from where i took the bus . As i had pass, i don't need to worry where the bus will go . Luckily it was going to Shivaji nagar and i know which bus will go from there to my place.

I waited for the bus but it didn't come . Because of traffic i had to wait for more than 2 hours .

So my whole day was spent in waiting for bus and commuting .

So i confirmed what i already know . It is better to enjoy holiday at home sleeping and watching cartoons .