Francisco Tapia
fhtapia at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 12:27:28 CDT 2011
John, but as you stated, you do make enough $$ to just suck it up, which even if it is a pita to copy folders out because you haven't a clue how to properly backup your VMs. You've done the leg work and have been totaly unsucessful in properly backing up your VMs, true you have a workaround and you have an estimate of non-billable hours that you have spent on this task. You've also taken a stab at plumbing and your own electrical work which is how you figured it's cheaper to just hire in some "big guns" to get it done. knowing what you know now about how you cannot backup a VM, you could contact MS and ask for tech support and estimate on how to get the VMs backed up. It was in these scenarios when I was researching VMs on why I picked VMware, because they were established, and everything could be done by our IT team, because it did not take any strange voodoo magic or our company "sucking it up". and btw, I did the research on my on hours not on company time... technically any money on maintenance isn't ever re-couped, it's always a setback because if you hadn't spent it you'd still have it... Let's get back to SQL -Francisco On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:39 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com>wrote: > Now... it comes time to back up the VMs. OMFG is that a nightmare! And I > spend a ton of time studying this crap and never do get it working. And I > manually copy machine directories which at least gets them backed up but is > a crappy solution. So 6 months later I take another stab at it and OMFG is > it (still) a nightmare! > > It is in those "OMFG is that a nightmare" scenarios where I spend > non-billable hours that truly annoy me. A lot of "non-billable" hours truly > are just the cost of doing business but there are other things like backing > up a VM where it should just work. But it doesn't. And I cannot figure out > why, nor can I calculate how much time I will spend to get it working, nor > can I calculate how much I would spend to hire the big guns to fix it. Nor > do I even know any big guns to fix it. > > Again, it kind of boils down to scale. For a big company you just put it > in the budget for these kind of things, but there is a large income to carve > that line item out of. You just call the IT guy into the office and tell > him to get it done and he goes away and gets it done, out of the budget line > item you provide. In my case I am the IT guy and it comes out of my rent. > I just can't realistically pass it up. > > I understand perfectly what you are talking about Arthur. I long ago > stopped doing my own plumbing and electrical work, which is the same > concept. I can hire it done cheaper than I can do it myself. But I can > pretty accurately estimate the cost / bene ratio and I know where to go find > the plumber. In something this complex I really can't forecast whether I > may end up paying someone a ton of money I don't have and can't recoup. > > *Those* are the issues that are just not fun as a sole proprietor. > > >