how he thought he was doing it like that, I'll never know. Asking wtf he thought he was doing I found out that there'd been a drive failure, potentially two and he was trying to recover the RAID array. I walked into the server room one afternoon to find this senior pulling drives from a sister company's PDC and swapping them into other positions in the server. I think I was just willfully (and blissfully) ignorant as I hated dealing with them. He could'nt and it was up to us juniors to figure out most of the issues, but he kept the backups isolated to himself and we always trusted that he was actually making sure they were completing properly. New senior had never worked with Windows before but was sure he could figure it out. Something that I was grateful to handover to the new senior was the old tape backup system and its nightly backups with appropriate weekly rotation, offsite weekly backup and extremely finicky software.

I kept things afloat until a new senior admin was hired and another (but full time) junior. The owner hadn't been forward thinking enough to ensure that his extremely talented senior staff was paid appropriately and they left and for a brief time, I (a junior and part time junior at that) in complete control of everything. Many years ago I worked in a small managed services company catering to SME in a small city. My memory on the specifics isn't great but the gist is all you need. Another post reminded me of this story from half a lifetime ago but it was too long for a comment.

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