Hard Drive Failure

[Jeff Mack]

We had a hard drive failure on the server today. I am trying to move the site to a temp server while this one is being rebuilt. That is why there have been a bunch of bugs and errors.  I am trying to get things back to normal as soon as I can, but I am sure you will still having issues logging in from time to time, or see weird things.  Sorry for the inconvenience

 

Jeff

 

 

[MartinP]

I noticed a couple of weird things happen around 11 am this morning. Is that when you had the hard drive failure?

[Jeff Mack]

Yes it started by corrupting some database tables and then went downhill from there.

[comicblast]

No worries! I'm sure you're doing all you can. The site will survive.

[vincevaughn]

Did the array go down or just a single drive...I assume you are running a RAID. Just curious and no worries, these things happen.

[Alpinemaps]

Ah.  That explains the whole "let me see the latest unread messages in this thread" and it was taking me back a day or two issue I was having around 11AM this morning.

 

Good luck guys. 

[Jeff Mack]

It's pretty solid now

[Guest TabbyBoy]

I run 2 replicated RAID5 boxes at home so I have dual redundancy. May as well since I have a GoldPlate Server 2012 licence from work and too much music and films to lose!

[lodibricks]

I run 2 replicated RAID5 boxes at home so I have dual redundancy. May as well since I have a GoldPlate Server 2012 licence from work and too much music and films to lose!

Goldplate Server? I didn't want to admit I've never heard of it, but Google doesn't seem to know either. Now I'm curious.

[TheBrickClique]

Probably the only thread in the forums where SSD may come up in conversation and we won't be referring to 10221.

My day job is in SSD engineering. And not the star-destroying type. I get a little nervous anytime talks about SSD retirement :)

[Guest TabbyBoy]

Goldplate Server? I didn't want to admit I've never heard of it, but Google doesn't seem to know either. Now I'm curious.

Basically an enterprise licence open to employees that work from home. I still prefer OSX though but I have to pay for that!

[vincevaughn]

I run 2 replicated RAID5 boxes at home so I have dual redundancy. May as well since I have a GoldPlate Server 2012 licence from work and too much music and films to lose!

Honestly after seeing some of the horror stories of RAID recovery I just keep mine in JBOD with a suitcase of backups in the closet. That way I don't have to worry about it. Keeping it simple although it is getting hard to keep up with over 40tb spread across five machines :P

[trenth]

I am not able to load pictures in my galleries.  Would these issues be the reason for this?

[Jeff Mack]

I am not able to load pictures in my galleries.  Would these issues be the reason for this?

 

 

Let me know if you can upload them now

[neatling]

Since the hard drive went down I have had no content showing in the blog, brickvesting or evaluation sections if the homepage.

[Jeff Mack]

Since the hard drive went down I have had no content showing in the blog, brickvesting or evaluation sections if the homepage.

 

No one sees anything there at the moment.

[Bold-Arrow]

Most of my BP notifications are going to my junk folder for the last few days even though I keep marking them as safe. Would those two events be related in any way?

[BearCrash]

Honestly after seeing some of the horror stories of RAID recovery I just keep mine in JBOD with a suitcase of backups in the closet. That way I don't have to worry about it. Keeping it simple although it is getting hard to keep up with over 40tb spread across five machines

 

Don't make the mistake of thinking that RAID is a backup system, because it's not. It's just a way of keeping your server up-and-running during a disk crash. You should always backup critical data, regardless of the RAID level you're using.