work work work....

[dwivian]

Still at the office, still working.

Long day.

All because one name in a configuration was changed.

Lose one name, lose one connection.

Lose one connection, lose one database.

Lose one database, lose references.

Lose references, lose half a petabyte of data.

Fix one name, and you might find all those steps to where your data is.

But..... not yet.

Comments

[msolursh.livejournal.com]

I'm showing my ignorance of all things technical by asking, but what's a petabyte? some sort of dog food snack?

[dwivian]

A petabyte is a number equal to 2⁵⁰, or about 10¹⁵. A petabyte of grains of rice would fit in 88 million 55 gallon drums, and would feed everyone on the planet for over a week.

[melonaise.livejournal.com]

From wikipedia:

A petabyte (derived from the SI prefix peta- ) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one quadrillion bytes, or 1000 terabytes. It is commonly abbreviated PB. When used with byte multiples, the prefix may indicate a power of either 1000 or 1024, so the exact number may be either:

* 1,000,000,000,000,000 bytes — 1000⁵, or 10¹⁵, or
* 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes — 1024⁵, or 2⁵⁰.