Friday, 5 December 2008
Unplanned service outage: 12/04/08
Dear CardMeeting users,
Scary happenings: Broken RAID mirror due to drive failure on the meeting storage server @ 10PM PST. Restore underway.
I am restoring the mirror now with a spare drive, but I cannot guarantee that all data saved in the last 24 hours is okay. In fact, I may have to take the server down for a complete rebuild soon if I find that the system was damaged after the mirror broke. Before beginning the mirror restoration process, I took a backup of all meetings. If you notice that any data is missing on your meetings, please let me know and we can attempt a restore of your meeting for you.
Man, it was freaky swapping those drives. I kept checking and double-checking and triple-checking that I was not pulling the good drive by mistake. Just locking and unlocking drives to pull them is a pretty freaky thing. I guess I am still a little suspicious of hot-plugging any device that whirs or uses lots of power. :)
Sooo ... my apologies if there was any data loss as a result of the drive failure. As always, you can use the Export and Import XML to backup and restore CardMeeting contents.
Thanks for using CardMeeting!
Dave Woldrich
