autopia is foo'd

[dbinnc]

Early today we had a system hardware failure that resulted in the loss of our server's disk storage system...

assout:

 

[Ronkh]

oops

 

[holland_patrick]

Opps......

 

[Beemerboy]

" I didn't think it would hurt to unplug for a second"



my bad

 

[JaredPointer]

So, what exactly does that mean? That they lost everything? Surely it was backed up...

 

[dbinnc]

They have backups from what date i don't know and trying to get data off the bad drives. You gotta back up instantly ie replication or back up every hour when you have a big site. I speak from experience.

 

[PerroneFord]

You gotta back up instantly ie replication or back up every hour when you have a big site. I speak from experience.

Yes, but most people don't do the disk-to-disk backups or CDP. I do this for a living too and it's scary to think that people are still doing nightly or worse, weekly backups to tape.

Autopia isn't THAT big a site. I'm doing CDP on Terabytes here.

 

[dbinnc]

haha, ya, terabytes is a little bit bigger.

 

[OCDinPDX]

Uh-oh spudoodieos.....:redface:

 

[Bunky]

This is a good test of a back up system. We shall see.

 

[blk45]

Yes, but most people don't do the disk-to-disk backups or CDP. I do this for a living too and it's scary to think that people are still doing nightly or worse, weekly backups to tape.

Autopia isn't THAT big a site. I'm doing CDP on Terabytes here.

Can't they just do a RAID setup? You don't lose anything that way, unless all of the drives fail (highly unlikely).

 

[PerroneFord]

Can't they just do a RAID setup? You don't lose anything that way, unless all of the drives fail (highly unlikely).

There are a number of ways to skin the cat. Raid (5) protects against single failure but does give a performance hit. Hardware based raid can also be expensive. There is log shipping type backup which MS offers for very little money now to protect MS Server, SQL, Exchange and others that offeres 15 minutes of loss max. There is RAID 1 which is probably where I would be going with the likely size of Autopia. I can't imagine that you couldn't host that site with 3-4 1TB SATA drives and mirror them onto another 3-4. All in one server if necessary, or on a SAN run by 2 blades for failover security.

I am sure they have people who can help them if need be but I'd certainly offer my services if requested.

 

[dbinnc]

wow, wtf is going on over there?

On Friday, we had a second complete failure and started over again with a new server.

 

[armoredsaint]

looks like it's down again?

 

[dbinnc]

yup, but the error is " Too many connections" for MySQL, guess it isn't set up correctly

 

[OCDinPDX]

I was on there last night...worked fine for me.