As a NASA contractor, I’m beginning to feel some symbiosis between the travails of the NAS Backup server and the current issues holding up the launch of Discovery on STS-114. 
Anyhow, unless the datacenter gets the backup server in place by 6:00 p.m. Central tonight, I rather doubt that I’ll be undertaking a backup-reload-restore process this weekend. I want to make sure that I’m not rushed for time and can do the job right, and that means having a weekend to do it. I hope that you’ll all understand.
It does seem that the security measures in place are holding up for now. I’m having to spend more time monitoring the server than I’d like, but it’s performing adequately.
As always, thank you for your continued patience.
I still hate computers.
As I just noted on [rocksmyfaceoff.info]—where you can always check to see if I know the site’s down, rather than sending me an email, IM, or calling me on the phone —I’m going to hold off on the backup-reload-restore process …