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[Adam Clarke]

I understand this VPS is down due to a hard disk array failing - does this mean we will have to restore all the customizations we have done to our VPS account?

Will I have to start again?

[Valechumbar]

hope not!

[Adam Clarke]

hope not!

Me too!

I really dont want to have to go down that road

[Valechumbar]

anybody else on this node?

[JPC-Greg]

No you dont need to worry about it, raid10 did its job. While sometimes a failing drive will corrupt data blocks and that gets copied over to other drives, the raid can usually detect this and work out the bugs by rebuilding those blocks. I beleive this is/was the case for this node and it shuold be all back up and going again.

[Fea]

Well, my VPS is still unavailable.

[Valechumbar]

Mine's up

With some problems and slow at the begining, but now everything looks ok

[Adam Clarke]

The VPS on that server is slowwwww! with a load of like 2.80!!! People must be running updates!

[Fea]

Mine is up too and also kind of slow.

[Valechumbar]

Well now mine's almost unreachable. Very slow, it takes minutes to make anything. And load average is very high. Some commands at ssh gives me "cant allocate memory' error

This is no good

[JPC-Greg]

I was wrong, the raid card failed not a drive. The card was replaced, array rebuilt and things restored from backups. Its probaly a lot of people taxing things to double up backups and the act of other restores slowing it all down.

sigh, this is the worst month for hardware failures we have had in years. Thankfully backups had us covered, except for the poor folks on chamaleon of course.

[Adam Clarke]

Jag,

My system is a bit messed up.

my mysql is playing up and my system guy says that it cannot self sudo which is bad.... please help me

[Ron]

Ummm don't forget the poor folks on zeus, who lost 2 weeks worth of stuff on one partition, and had to write all sorts of code to sync up their databases with their file systems..
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. because we didn't have our own current backups

[Adam Clarke]

Ummm don't forget the poor folks on zeus, who lost 2 weeks worth of stuff on one partition, and had to write all sorts of code to sync up their databases with their file systems..
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. because we didn't have our own current backups

I have been through a fair share of data loss myself - I remember the days of having to backup sites on cobalt raq's - god that was a right pain. lol

I back up everything now (as I am sure you do too ).

[Valechumbar]

I also have services (Mysql, httpd) going down alone

This is too strange to me