Crazyguyonabike server crash
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Crazyguyonabike server crash
Hi all,
There seems to have been some kind of hardware failure on the crazyguyonabike server. I got up this morning to find a read-only filesystem which pretty much stops me from doing anything. There are some clues in the logs which would seem to point to something in the RAID or disk controller, or perhaps one or more hard drives. I have put a message in to our hosting company to ask when they can look at this. Since it's the weekend (of course) it's possible that it might be Monday before anything really gets done, but I'll post updates here if I hear anything.
Neil
There seems to have been some kind of hardware failure on the crazyguyonabike server. I got up this morning to find a read-only filesystem which pretty much stops me from doing anything. There are some clues in the logs which would seem to point to something in the RAID or disk controller, or perhaps one or more hard drives. I have put a message in to our hosting company to ask when they can look at this. Since it's the weekend (of course) it's possible that it might be Monday before anything really gets done, but I'll post updates here if I hear anything.
Neil
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Thanks Neil for the update. Hope it gets sorted out sooner rather than later. I just finished an 8-day tour here in Alaska with my son, and was looking to get caught up with a few tour logs I'm following.
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So while the data might not still be there on the server's hard drives, it is restorable from elsewhere, probably up-to-the-minute or better.
This doesn't say how long it'll take to bring the server back up, of course - but the data itself should be ok.
Neil
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See my reply above - "crashed" does not mean "lost". Hardware crashes; you can't do anything about that, and I currently cannot afford to run multiple hot spares. However you can take steps to make sure the data is safe in the event of a hardware failure, and this I believe I have done. So Ken's journal (and everyone else's) will be just fine.
Of course, I apologise to all for the downtime.
Neil
Of course, I apologise to all for the downtime.
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The server is back up again. It appears to have been some kind of hiccup with the RAID controller losing the connection with one of the drives, rather than an actual hardware failure. I have posted a thread with more of a possible explanation (from the guy who built the server and runs the hosting company where it is currently colocated) on crazyguyonabike.
https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/forum...read_id=124235
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https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/forum...read_id=124235
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i noticed it went down, it happend while i was reading one of the journals "Around the united states on a budget".