System Hardware Failure & Forum
Submitted: Wednesday, Jan 04, 2006 at 14:30
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ExplorOz Team - David
Hi,
Well what a night and morning this has turned out to be. Last night at approx 12PM EST the servers disk array decided to destroy itself. This has meant that the system had to be restored from tape. Now we got everything back as at 11PM EST however the
forum database was missing from the tape (yeah - great I said). We attempted to recover the files from the crashed disk array alas no data was able to be recovered. We then had to fail back to a special internal backup that I run on the server. Problem was that the system crashed before this was completed and put on tape so the net result is that we had to go back 24 hours and as such all
forum threads since midnight on the 2nd have not been restored.
This is the first failure of the kind on ExplorOz and we are sorry for the inconvience. Rest assured that my next task is to migrate the
forum to a new DB platform with siginificant backup and redundancy options. This has now been escalated to an urgent task. Bugger how these tasks increase in prority after a failure!
As for the rest of the site we lost nothing at all as the other databases have already been moved to the newer platform. So orders, trader, pointplace, fuel and everything else is 100% OK.
Again sorry for the hassle please feel free to re-post any threads that are now missing.
Reply By: Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses - Wednesday, Jan 04, 2006 at 16:21
Wednesday, Jan 04, 2006 at 16:21
David, sorry to hear you had those problems - it took me a couple of minutes to decide it wasn't
mine actually, so glad it wasn't here but had to reboot computers a couple of times as I only had one priority for a site to visit ;-) I knew email worked and messaging but not EO.
Thanks for your restoration efforts David and the reassurance it wasn't here.
Always seems to be a puter problem somewhere with them. Last week there was a power supply here first manifesting itself with USB connection failures of 5 volts. Then some d***head decides to password protect the content advisor on the browser. Know that wasn't the staff as they don't have that knowledge.
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Reply By: techie - Wednesday, Jan 04, 2006 at 22:25
Wednesday, Jan 04, 2006 at 22:25
Amen to footloose - u got a giggle out of that one.
Diskette backup is good - got a heap of 5 1/4 360k you can use.
Re my post #29325 re solar panels on eBay.
(weird, when I look back for the replies and got this posting instead)
Thanks everyone for their response. I think I'll give them a miss.
too old and prob not the rating they stated.
Techie
ps Thanks David - good job of restoration, I know from personal experience - not easy
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