Resolved- Olga "has" had a bad hard drive

[andreadoria]

Our goal here was to preserve your data from what could have a catastrophic drive failure. I think we succeeded in that department. Now we are stuck dealing with the hardware limitations of the raid array and waiting for it trying to rebuild itself.

Yea, I appreciate that, and the fact that I was able to get in and make a backup (which I didn't actually have) yesterday. So it's not like you're a bad person or anything.

Just, slow/unresponsive servers tend to freak people out.

Okay good news and bad news.

The good news is the original machine has been outfitted with new hardware and is ready to take these drives and raid array back.

The bad news of course is we have to take thie servers offline to do it. We expect about 30 minutes for this changeout. We are going to do this tonight at 2 am.

Half hour to an hour at 2 or 3am east coast is no skin off my back. Here's to it working out smoothly.

However, this thread affords only one logical conclusion : Matt, you need more women.

[Matt]

However, this thread affords only one logical conclusion : Matt, you need more women.

Thank goshness ( Is that a word?) there are still people with a sense of humor through this.

I'd name the next machine "andrea" but we alreay have 3 machines that begin with the letter "A"

I forgot to mention one of the early goals was to have exactly 26 machines, that way we could have one machine, that started with every letter of the US alphabet.

A) Alex
B) Betsy
C) Cleo
D) Deb
E) Etc

So that is enough history for you folks for today anyways. Olga has been down for about 30 mins so that was our expected threshold. I need to check in and see what the status is. I will report shortly.

[morganus]

Appreciate the hard work Matt.

Myself, I host a WoW guild forum on my site and quit 2 days ago with assurances the website would stay up and running even if i wasn't playing.

Next day the server goes down and i've got a few very anxious guild members emailing me asking why i took down the guild website including one very angry guild leader. LOL

Timing can be everything sometimes.

Keep at it Matt. Hopefully everything will stabalise soon.

Morg