Re: Two questions for gkrellm on windows

On 2010.10.06 14:34, Rio wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 06, 2010, you wrote:
> > On 06.10.10 14:23, Jack wrote:
> > > On 2010.10.02 12:13, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> > >> On 10/02/2010 05:53 PM, Jack wrote:
>>>> Actually the archives seem to have lost everything between January  
>>>> 16th and August 16th (is that thing running on Windows? *g*).
>>> There are only four posts between August 16 and September 20, and  
>>> then nothing until three posts today. Can anybody check if there is  
>>> really something wrong with the server?
> > That would probably be Rio (CCed him because of what we both saw).
> unfortunately there was a severe disk problem which skipped most of  
> the blocks holding those msgs along with many many other things. we  
> attempted disk recovery but it was not going to happen so we had to  
> do with putting what we had on the new disks. unfortunately it went  
> on long enough before it was troublesome enough that we were able to  
> notice it that it also skipped the blocks when backing up to the  
> mirror sites. so yes, those months are unfortunately lost.
> most of the time when some blocks go haywire the system would scream  
> until someone paid attention to fix it, but these failed in such a  
> way that somehow they just got skipped over without errors in the  
> logs. there was only one application that gave an error but it hardly  
> ever is used, maybe once or twice a year if that,  and when i tried  
> it is when i noticed a disk error and took steps to correct it and  
> found the extent it covered.
> we have since placed the virtual server on a machine using a raid 60  
> array with 2 spares for each of the 2 array elements, so i expect  
> this problem will not show up again.
> i apologize for the lost msgs but this one was something that was out  
> of anyone's control.
Rio,

Thanks at least for the explanation.  It doesn't get the data back, but  
it's good to know nobody was at fault.

Jack

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