Well, if I have discovered anything in the last 3 days, it most certainly has to be:

“When it rains, it does not pour, it leaves you merely 2 miles underwater sitting beside the Titanic enjoying a spot of tea.”

Our Small Business Server 2003 R2 Premium box seems to have picked up a nice bug in the backup mechanism, that due to extenuating circumstances, I am unable to fix right now.  Suffice to say though, whenever it goes to perform a backup SOMETHING bad happens and either kills the system entirely or merely kills ISA 2004′s firewall service.

The extenuating circumstances that have pulled me away would be the new virtualization server to host all of our development data for our big project that we’re working on.  It has taken me 3 hours to just get it to install Windows Server 2008 without bluescreening or merely erroring.  It seems that the original factory BIOS on our P5Q motherboard didn’t like the OCZ Platinum RAM (performance RAM in a server?  God…I really need to find cheaper value RAM to buy ).  When everything is said and done though, this system will have 8GB of RAM, an Intel Core2Quad Q9300 and will start with a set of 500GB HDDs in a RAID mirror array.

The big plan is to implement Hyper-V and virtualize the new development servers needed (as well as for me to discover if I can make Subversion run on a VM efficiently.)

Anyways, I should get my nose back to the grind stone… Woo!