Eton Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks for the exhaustive efforts Admin, we appreciate it greatly!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwatch Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Ahhhh.....home sweet home! It's good to be back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmurphy926 Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Rumor has it, the fire was caused by the GGG thread... Great job, Boss! Alright...I'll be more careful not to post the real hot pix... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmurphy926 Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 What? No syncing to a DR site? Just kidding...As someone in the IT field, I feel your pain! Good work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhitesox Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Damn as a System Administrator I had a cold sweat reading this...Nice work to get it back up and running!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrgod Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Great work! Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asf Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks for the story. That's pretty scary that a back up of a back up of a back up can go wrong. Glad to be back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lufcmattylad Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 I didnt know what to do with myself whilst RWG was down... really pleased I could log in again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cats Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks for getting RWG back to life again. I didn't realize that i would miss this community that much. Great job Carpe Diem Cats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimster Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks for all the hard work. We all appreciate it. NOW IT'S TIME TO SHOW OUR SUPPORT BY UPGRADING AND MAKING THE RENT!! I'LL DO SOME RENT! NEXT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Posted January 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Thanks for all the hard work! Are you going to put in a claim @ the datacenter? Seems they are responsible? Well, the datacenter has been very helpful through this entire event and have made several machines available for me, both windows and linux to attempt to get data back from the disks. They are still investigating what went wrong and the fire has closed down almost 400 servers that was in the same room, as our rack. Everything has been moved to a new room, including our new servers. The only rack that was affected was ours and the routines and equipment did indeed work, but I know by experience that there are several different fire prevention systems out there and I'm not sure if our current datacenter is using one of those that can detect components from smoldering components, as this will be the first sign of something wrong, before smoke and/or flames appear and all "regular" systems detect these things. I will wait for their final report before deciding what to do, but I don't think they could have done anything different and I don't think we are entitled to a big claim anyway. We'll see.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArkoN Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 Damn as a System Administrator I had a cold sweat reading this...Nice work to get it back up and running!! I had the same feeling ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KB Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 I feel bad because it is all my fault. T always says you need to light a fire under Ken to get him going, well a couple of the guys tried it.... They didn't realise I had pizza and beer for lunch...the rest as they say is history Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxman Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 I feel bad because it is all my fault. T always says you need to light a fire under Ken to get him going, well a couple of the guys tried it.... They didn't realise I had pizza and beer for lunch...the rest as they say is history Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonporsche Posted January 11, 2011 Report Share Posted January 11, 2011 WOW! Missed this place, for the record RWI and Repgeek are no substitute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
offshore Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Good job Boss! O/S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redwatch Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 WOW! Missed this place, for the record RWI and Repgeek are no substitute. And I noticed, unlike RWG, they do not have an RWG room for scenarios such as this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sly Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Glad were back up. Like other's I missed this place... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhooq Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 And I noticed, unlike RWG, they do not have an RWG room for scenarios such as this. Admins should take that as a compliment. There hadn't been any need for an RWG refugee camp until now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jkay Posted January 12, 2011 Report Share Posted January 12, 2011 Congrats for all the hard work and the successful resolution. As someone who knows enough about servers and Linux to get into a lot of trouble, I've been there and done that. It's always a miracle to find that un-corrupted database backup as a surprise. I've had "bullet proof" tape systems with miles of corrupted data on them .. A question, tho .. why are you archiving the entire DB nightly, instead of exponentially smaller incremental backups? Thanks for your efforts, and I'm glad to be able to read here again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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