I absolutely detest having the stinking on-call pager. This was my week in the barrel; it’s been reasonably quiet, but it’s always unsettling; I don’t sleep as well as normal, I have to have the company-issued POS Winders laptop handy, and generally the problems that arise involve failed backups, about  which I am blissfully and reasonably ignorant.  My answer to failed backups goes something along the lines of “Hope it works next time.”  This may sound like a BOFH response, but by the time it is noted that a backup failed, we’re outside the backup window anyhow, so you determine what happened, fix anything needed, and wait until the next go-round.

I have about 18 more hours until I can hand this device off to the next poor schlub in the rotation.  I hope it’s quiet in the interim.

-k-