Okafor Joinery

Same-day server recovery after hardware failure

A failed on-prem server nearly stopped the workshop — remote backups and a spare loan machine had them cutting timber again before close of business.

The challenge

Okafor Joinery's office server died mid-afternoon. Quotes, drawings and accounts lived on that box.

Restored the critical shares from the previous night's backup onto a temporary machine
Reconnected workshop PCs and printers
Scheduled a proper replacement server with monitored backups

Production continued the next morning. They now have managed monitoring so the next failure won't be a surprise.

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