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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2018 10:29 am
As some of you already know, we have suffered a major hardware failure. Normally, we get a new server, reinstall the most current backup and time for the DNS to propagate, in less than 24 hours, we're back online.
Unfortunately, my backups were made on the server's RAID and the RAID is the part that broke down. Normally, a disk fails, we put a new one and time for the data to reconstruct and we're back online.
Well that was not this easy this time and we were not able to recover anything on the server's hardware. Being very far from the main switch, I have a very slow Internet connection. For that reason I was not doing many off site backup. The last one was from last year. I tried all I could to make it work (at least bring back the users data) but it was always something not going.
When something refuses to work like that, the is only one thing left to do: Restart from scratch.
So please accept my apologies for all the trouble and let the discussions flow again.
Unfortunately, my backups were made on the server's RAID and the RAID is the part that broke down. Normally, a disk fails, we put a new one and time for the data to reconstruct and we're back online.
Well that was not this easy this time and we were not able to recover anything on the server's hardware. Being very far from the main switch, I have a very slow Internet connection. For that reason I was not doing many off site backup. The last one was from last year. I tried all I could to make it work (at least bring back the users data) but it was always something not going.
When something refuses to work like that, the is only one thing left to do: Restart from scratch.
So please accept my apologies for all the trouble and let the discussions flow again.