Re: [gentoo-dev] cvs.gentoo.org hard drive failure

drobbins@g.o wrote:
>
> Important information:
> ======================
>
> At about 10:00 AM this morning, I walked into my home office and noticed that
> cvs.gentoo.org's hard drive light was stuck on.  Turning on the monitor, I
> found a number of IDE drive error kernel messages on the screen.  I quickly
> rebooted the server, and found that the hard drive (a quite new IBM 45Gb
> Ultra/100 drive) was making a weird chirping sound and was unable to spin up...
> the system wouldn't recognize the drive, it was dead.
>
> So, it's 11:51 AM now, and the system has been restored onto another IBM 30Gb
> Ultra/100 drive.  *Fortunately for everone*, I performed a full system backup
> to tape about a day ago.  Ironically, I'm in the process of writing a backup
> tutorial for IBM developerWorks :/
>
> Here's what we lost:
> ====================
>
> About a day's worth of received mail
>
> About a day's worth of cvs commits (Achim, could you "cvs commit" from your
> mirror so we can get most of these lost changes back?)

Hmm the mirror runns "cvs update -d" every hour. I tried to commit but
only a few missing digest where commited.
Fortunately I did not on gentoo this weekend. 

>
> About 1500 words from my backup tutorial :/

But one new chapter for free. :-)

>
> About 3 hours of excellent work on the new Portage system (a bummer, but
> easily re-do-able)
>
> Basically, any files or emails or anything created in the last day have been
> lost.  No incoming mail when the server was dead was lost, since we have a
> backup MX record and account at my ISP.
>
> Here's what you need to know:
> =============================
>
> When I restored everything this morning, I think I had some kind of umask
> problem so that some file permissions are incorrect.  You may want to check
> your files to make sure that they have the right perms.  Ownership should
> be correct.  I had to fix up mailman so that our mailing list would again
> work correctly.
>
> All in all, we were incredibly fortunate that it wasn't worse!!!!!!
> Have you ever noticed that all system crashes happen on Sunday morning?

I did not notice any problems. :-)

achim~

>
> Best Regards,
>
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> Daniel Robbins                                  <drobbins@g.o>
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> Gentoo Technologies, Inc.
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