The Animorphs Fan Forum Blog » hard disk crash http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:05:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 AFF is back up after a hardware failure http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/07/07/aff-is-back-up-after-a-hardware-failure/ http://blog.animorphsfanforum.com/2008/07/07/aff-is-back-up-after-a-hardware-failure/#comments Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:32:06 +0000 Ellimist http://animorphsfanforum.com/blog/?p=17 Our host has recovered from the hard disk failure and all data has been restored.

Around 3 PM IST(GMT+5:30) yesterday, one of the hard drives of the server on which AFF is hosted , crashed, leading to the unavailability of the forum. I immediately pointed the domain to another host and put up a notice regarding the HDD failure. Fortunately, the hard drives at the data center were in a RAID configuration, and the data was mirrored. Immediately after the HDD failure, a new HDD was inserted into the RAID array and the data was copied to it. Since around 1 terabyte of data was lost, restoring it took quite some time and finally the hard drive was put online around 3 AM IST.

This whole fiasco lead to a massive downtime of 12 hours and I apologise for any inconvenience caused. Now everything is back to normal and the server is running optimally.

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