Dealing with a corrupted hard drive on a production SQL server: A field report
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Summary
An ICT engineer at a Swiss biopharma company recounts their experience dealing with a corrupted hard drive on a production server hosting a critical MS SQL Database. The issue was first detected by their backup system at the end of 2023, preventing backups from completing. The article details the technical troubleshooting process, the impact on lab operations, and the lessons learned from handling hardware failure in a production environment.
Key quotes
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At the end of 2023, our backup system detected that there was an issue with one of our servers.
The result of that was that the backup couldn't be completed.
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