ITS BACK UP!

Atrocities · #1 July 10th, 2004, 09:14 AM

Thanks.

This is what happens when you let employees use the web sever for browsing of the internet. Someone hit a porn site by mistake, ah huh, and the pop ups overflowed the system buffer, causing a cascade server failure of the main pipe line resulting in a CPU over usage alarm which caused the Hard Drive back up buffer to fail thus shutting down the redundent RAM data and tape back ups causing the Hard drive to loose integrity resulting in Hard Drive system failure.

NOw this could have all been avoid if Shrapnel Games would have invested in the Atrocities 2000, a pop up killer that blocks porno pop ups and redirects them toward competator sites.

Raging Deadstar · #2 July 10th, 2004, 12:24 PM

Ahh thank lord this is back up. As much work i actually got done yesterday as i wasn't constantly here it just doesn't feel the same, are we sad?

Hard Drive Failure? Is the harddrive located in canada? if so i'm convinced theres a conspiracy!

se5a · #3 July 11th, 2004, 01:34 AM

yea - next time AT give a guy a chance to check the bloody page before signing off!

Gandalf Parker · #4 July 10th, 2004, 03:23 PM

Ok here is what happened.
Due to new staff on board with technical backgrounds, conversations were restarted involving things like servers, upgrades, and policies such as backups and assigning caps on some services. Someone didnt knock on virtual wood or something because Murphy got wind of our plans. In the middle of the night the system stopped responding. We were notified by the hosting company that pings were failing. reboot authorized. reboot froze. reloading of the OS to the second installed harddrive authorized. system came up (but of course no web pages or anything). scan of the initial harddrive (which takes a LOOoonnngg time) showed over 90% of the files were recoverable. Between backups and files from the old harddrive things should get fully back in swing soon. Lesson learned; never forget to appease Murphy.

Thermodyne · #5 July 10th, 2004, 04:00 PM

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Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
Ok here is what happened.
Due to new staff on board with technical backgrounds, conversations were restarted involving things like servers, upgrades, and policies such as backups and assigning caps on some services. Someone didnt knock on virtual wood or something because Murphy got wind of our plans. In the middle of the night the system stopped responding. We were notified by the hosting company that pings were failing. reboot authorized. reboot froze. reloading of the OS to the second installed harddrive authorized. system came up (but of course no web pages or anything). scan of the initial harddrive (which takes a LOOoonnngg time) showed over 90% of the files were recoverable. Between backups and files from the old harddrive things should get fully back in swing soon. Lesson learned; never forget to appease Murphy.

Murphy can kiss my a$$!!!! If there was a second drive, where was the raid?

Richard · #6 July 10th, 2004, 04:06 PM

There wasn't a second hard drive before the crash, that was the old drive we were pulling data off of.

But the end result is a pretty minor outage of a day for the forums.

So everythings good

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Gandalf Parker · #7 July 10th, 2004, 04:33 PM

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Originally posted by Thermodyne:
Murphy can kiss my (obvious effort to sidestep netnannys) $!!! If there was a second drive, where was the raid?

I didnt say the second drive wasnt already being used for something.

Windows and raid? Well that would have been part of the discussions which got murphys attention I guess. Maybe it was included in with the multi-ISP multi-homed multi-pathed load-balancing Sun cluster conversation. (hmmm I think I have most of that sitting in my garage)

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