Everything’s backed up over to the NAS. We’re good to go.
The backup HDD keeps throwing crazy failure warnings. I’ve reported all those to the NOC in the hopes that I can get the investigation time cut to a minimum. They haven’t said as much, but I’m guessing that their escalation procedures require them to do an investigation on possibly-working drives before they replace them—after all, the way the lease agreement works is that they have to provide the services they are leasing to me at all times, so they have to pay for the HD. They don’t want to go just on my say-so that the drive is failling—otherwise, someone enterprising would just report failures every nine months and get fresh drives regularly, and maybe even go so far as to get free O/S reloads out of it, too.
That said, I’m hoping that all the evidence that I have that shows that the HDD is not long for this world will shorten that time so we can be back up faster. I don’t expect any service at all after 1300 CDT tomor … err, today. Anything we get on Saturday night will be a bonus, I suspect.
I’ll update as I have information.