Server down - 03/22/07

**Rich Z** · 03-23-2007, 12:06 AM

The server apparently crashed this evening, from what the server techs told me. But it looks like they were able to recover everything by simply moving the hard drives to another box. So for those of you who noticed you couldn't get on the system roughly from 10:30pm till close to midnight, that's the reason behind it.

Yeah, stuff like server crashes DOES happen........

9T8Vette · 03-23-2007, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Rich Z

The server apparently crashed this evening, from what the server techs told me. But it looks like they were able to recover everything by simply moving the hard drives to another box. So for those of you who noticed you couldn't get on the system roughly from 10:30pm till close to midnight, that's the reason behind it.

Yeah, stuff like server crashes DOES happen........

Thanks RichZ

SteveK · 03-23-2007, 08:32 PM

Rich,

Do you rum Ghost on your drive?
Ghost keep a live back up on a second drive of equal or larger capacity. If either drive fails, you always have a back up. It is a Symantec product.

2Vettes · 03-23-2007, 09:48 PM

I was having withdrawals!!

**Rich Z** · 03-23-2007, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by SteveK

Rich,

Do you rum Ghost on your drive?
Ghost keep a live back up on a second drive of equal or larger capacity. If either drive fails, you always have a back up. It is a Symantec product.

This server actually resides in a data center somewhere. Not sure where, maybe Michigan, if I remember correctly. That being said, a realtime backup like Ghost would probably dramatically impact throughput on a server since each posted record would have to be written to two hard drives. That would very likely put a strain on the processors during peak usage times. I also use this server for my domain hosting for clients as well as various utility programs to support my main server. So I would be real reluctant to introduce substantially more loading to that box.

A nightly backup is done of the server (the server has two drives, main and backup), however. And further I have my own routines running to backup all the MySQL databases every night and download them to my local computer.

On a local system like my home computer, this sort of additional loading would not be an issue, but a server is a different ball of wax.

Thanks for the suggestion, however.

SteveK · 03-24-2007, 09:13 AM

Hi Rich,

Ghost won't effect the system. I have been running webservers for about 10 years and most of your Co-Lo facilities recommend it.
I host 3 car dealerships, 2 Realtors and a bunch of other domains. Ghost has saved me once and that was all it took to know that I wouldn't be without it.