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earendel · #1 Post by **earendel** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 5:48 am

Someone from the "highly efficient organization" (hereafter to be known as HEO) sent e-mail this morning to let us know what happened yesterday. Evidently there was a series of power surges in the downtown area on Sunday that affected several city blocks, including the one where our building is located. Despite having redundant UPSs installed, the surge passed through and damaged components of the e-mail server. They were able to take the drives out of the server and install them in another server and bring the e-mail system back online and fortunately hadn't lost any of the backup.

I've also been volunteered to take on some additional system administration duties for another district - our sister district in Buffalo is losing their SA to retirement. It's a small office and they don't want to bring in someone new, so the chief of that office asked my chief if I'd be willing to be their SA. He asked me and I agreed. Now it's a matter of figuring out how much effort will be involved and if there will be any salary paid by their office. It won't be a pay increase for me, however.

MarleysGh0st · #2 Post by **MarleysGh0st** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:31 am

How can you be a system administration for another office when the HEO has all that responsibility? And wouldn't whatever they're not doing require having somebody on site?

gsabc · #3 Post by **gsabc** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 6:36 am

Yep, send out an e-mail saying "Hey, your e-mail is working again!"

earendel · #4 Post by **earendel** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 7:12 am

MarleysGh0st wrote:How can you be a system administration for another office when the HEO has all that responsibility? And wouldn't whatever they're not doing require having somebody on site?

The contracting database that we use was not taken over by the HEO - there are several reasons why that didn't happen, but the short of it is that I still have "functional SA" duties which include troubleshooting problems and calling the help desk (not the HEO help desk, TBTG) for problems. I also run reports and the like. 95% of what I do can be done remotely, so little or no travel would be required. I'm already doing this for the Chicago district, although it's a little easier in that they share the same database that we use, whereas Buffalo would retain their own separate database.

ulysses5019 · #5 Post by **ulysses5019** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 8:25 am

gsabc wrote:Yep, send out an e-mail saying "Hey, your e-mail is working again!"

This is out government. I'd send out an email asking if they got my email.