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Important information: |
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At about 10:00 AM this morning, I walked into my home office and noticed that |
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cvs.gentoo.org's hard drive light was stuck on. Turning on the monitor, I |
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found a number of IDE drive error kernel messages on the screen. I quickly |
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rebooted the server, and found that the hard drive (a quite new IBM 45Gb |
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Ultra/100 drive) was making a weird chirping sound and was unable to spin up... |
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the system wouldn't recognize the drive, it was dead. |
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So, it's 11:51 AM now, and the system has been restored onto another IBM 30Gb |
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Ultra/100 drive. *Fortunately for everone*, I performed a full system backup |
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to tape about a day ago. Ironically, I'm in the process of writing a backup |
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tutorial for IBM developerWorks :/ |
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Here's what we lost: |
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About a day's worth of received mail |
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About a day's worth of cvs commits (Achim, could you "cvs commit" from your |
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mirror so we can get most of these lost changes back?) |
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About 1500 words from my backup tutorial :/ |
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About 3 hours of excellent work on the new Portage system (a bummer, but |
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easily re-do-able) |
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Basically, any files or emails or anything created in the last day have been |
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lost. No incoming mail when the server was dead was lost, since we have a |
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backup MX record and account at my ISP. |
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Here's what you need to know: |
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When I restored everything this morning, I think I had some kind of umask |
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problem so that some file permissions are incorrect. You may want to check |
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your files to make sure that they have the right perms. Ownership should |
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be correct. I had to fix up mailman so that our mailing list would again |
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work correctly. |
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All in all, we were incredibly fortunate that it wasn't worse!!!!!! |
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Have you ever noticed that all system crashes happen on Sunday morning? |
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Best Regards, |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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