Comments on: lug.org.uk is dead (again)

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:21:57 +0000

BTW thanks Adrian for your kind words. I wasn’t fishing for sympathy, honest!

(Indeed, Popey has been down to Redbus twice now as well, and lots of people have helped and/or donated small bits of hardware - thanks all)

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:05:53 +0000

Got back from redbus about an hour ago. Annoyingly the machine booted up and worked fine in the build room. Since the only hint we have is involving hda I will be returning tomorrow (Monday) night to swap that for another drive, and fit some extra/replacement fans, both provided by Alan Pope.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:15:59 +0000

I have only just got auth. to visit the datacentre and have plans for this afternoon already, so I will be there fo initial investigation about 8pm instead.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 09:41:20 +0000

Yes, Linux software RAID is used in RAID-1 across two drives. Also backups are done every 4 hours. No data will have been lost, the most likely case is that the BIOS won’t or isn’t set up to fall back to booting from hdc (cheap desktop motherboard).

By: DG

DG — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 08:48:19 +0000

Hi,

1) Do you use any sort of RAID? Or are you likely to have lost data?

2) Have you thought about approaching any of the hardware vendors (sun, hp, dell etc) to see whether they could donate hardware? I suspect even a low end machine would do the job?

Good luck fixing it….

David.

By: Adrian Bridgett

Adrian Bridgett — Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:31:01 +0000

@ problem
:-( at the comment about people complaining.

I would like to say a hugemongous “thank you” on behalf of all the lug.org.uk users. I don’t think most of them realise how much effort you put in. I’m sure I don’t and I’m already extremely grateful.

Adrian