Archive for May, 2008

Multiple failures suck

Saturday, May 17th, 2008

So, someone might have noticed that my site has been down for a little while.

First my mail/web server died hard, complete hard drive failure. It was about this point that I discovered that my backup scripts were somewhat lacking. It was about this time that my file server died.

Everything backs up to the fileserver, which then backs up to a machine offsite and occasionally to a local desktop. However this doesn’t occur as regularly as it should. Piecing together the files remaining on my fileserver, the files from the offsite backup and the onsite backup got me most of my data back.

I almost lost 6 months of email, but managed to restore this from local stores of email.

All this has taken some time to get things back together, but I’m back online now.

Unfortunately I lost all the photos hosted here. I still have the actual photos, but the resized images and html pages are gone. And I’m somewhat disinclined to bring most of them back, given the work involved. So I’m going to have to delete most of the posts related to that.