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Old 02-18-2003, 06:53 PM
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Well, I got online today and found a quick note on my main site:

"We (Emulation64 and Emutalk) are currently experiencing problems with one of our vital servers. Please bear with us - we'll try to get normal service back as soon as possible.

The Emulation64 team"

After nearly a year of 100% uptime, since it was first put online, our dedicated forums server (in my sig) crashed, the reason is uncertain. The harddrive suffered from the crash and was unable to boot. The colocation engineers (TeleCity) were unable to find a solution to the problem.

My co-admin drove 300 miles to the colocation (Amsterdam) and picked up the server, and is now back and have just started unpacking it. Hopefully the harddrive isn't completely ruined, and we can recover some data. 2 new 40 GB harddrives (ATA133, RAID) will replace the faulty harddrive.

My forums had been online since November 2001, and had 6000 members, 10000 threads and roughly 120000 posts. The forums powered the main site, meaning both are offline (well, the main site is now a news site only) until the server is back online.

Pray for me... :cry:
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Old 02-18-2003, 07:00 PM
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not that you would need me asking this right now but..

why would you trust mission critical data to an ide drive?
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I'm sorry to hear that Martin

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Old 02-18-2003, 07:08 PM
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not that you would need me asking this right now but..

why would you trust mission critical data to an ide drive?
Well, I say the same thing but I don't own that server, my co-admin does, and it's his decision, but *shrug*...If it was my server I'd get a SCSI drive. IDE usually works fairly well for webservers though, I've had another dedicated (rackshack) machine for 2 years without harddrive problems.
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Old 02-19-2003, 05:06 AM
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That is a forum admin's nightmare...

Better check on my dedicated box...
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Old 02-19-2003, 09:44 AM
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Whooaa triple-post Erwin. Your browser must have been slow this morning
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Old 02-19-2003, 10:42 AM
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Wow thats horrible, I give you hope.
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Had this happen to me before, not fun. My hard drive died and the processer fried all in one day..thank you infopop..

You do have off site backups, right?

Anyway, i wish you luck.
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Yeah, we did a backup a day or two before the crash, but didn't transfer it to the main server for some reason.

It's looking good though, it seems like all our data can be saved. . We estimate to have it back online on friday.

I'm happy.
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