Re: UKHA Archive Down

[Rob Iles <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

Most interesting IT/Infrastructure topic on the list in AGES! :-)

I've been drawn over to the Forums, where Mark says all the action is!

Still, I wish the data-centre guys luck - - have many many happy (yes, I'm
weird) memories of late nights / 144hour+ shifts, fixing/migrating data,
both physically (different site), and logically (new nas/san/array).

Ahhh, the good old days!   Anyone looking for a sysadmin in the Oxford
area?????

R.

On 23 March 2010 13:24, Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>
> Is the archive still down? I'm having trouble reaching it at the
moment.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim.
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:30 PM, the_home_automator
<dbuckley@xxxxxxx<dbuckley%40tex.com>
> >wrote:
>
>
> > Hi fellas
> >
> > Due to a catastrophic failure at the colo centre where the
Archive lives,
> > its been down for a few days and if we're lucky, it'll be back up
by the
> > weekend. If we're unlucky its going to take me a while to rebuild
an
> > archive site with over 100K messages.
> >
> > The catastrophic event was accidental release of inergen fire
suppressent
> > gas into the data centre. Before the release everything was
humming along
> > nicely. After the release, more than 500 harddisks were trashed.
> >
> > Those of you with a heavy IT background will of course understand
that
> this
> > isn't the way it supposed to be, Inergen is supposed to be a nice
> harmless
> > gas. But the guessing at the moment is that due to either a
sudden change
> > in room pressure, or possibly sudden loud noise, rotating
platters and
> > stationary heads had a touchy feely moment, making the disk
instantly
> > useless.
> >
> > The colo centre, owned by Consonus, is in Utah. WestHost.com, my
hoster
> > host there, along with their sister company vps.net. Both are are
now
> > owned by UK2.net who you'll all be familiar with.
>
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>
>
>



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