Today was a pretty good day, except for the 90 minutes when we thought that we had lost one of our backup tapes. There isn't enough space in our tape robots to hold all the tapes that contain data, so some of the tapes are stored out of the robot in racks. Although we try to take out the tapes we feel are less likely to be required, every once in a while someone has a request that can only be serviced with the tapes on the rack. Today was one of those days. The only problem was that one of the tapes was missing.

Which of course got me to wondering if one tape was all that we were missing. So I built a list of all the tapes that are on the racks to see how many of them were missing. Fortunately for us, in the process of trying to find out how many tapes were missing, the missing tape was found. And it turns out that we do have all the tapes we are supposed to have.

I can do without that stress.

Good night!