As many of you noticed, we had a site crash today. From around 1300 until 2200 UTC (2021-05-20).
A HUGE thank you goes to mechanicjay who spent the whole time trying to get our ndb (cluster) working again. It's an uncommon configuration, which made recovery especially challenging... there's just not a lot of documentation about it on the web.
I reached out and got hold of The Mighty Buzzard on the phone. Then put him in touch with mechanicjay who got us back up and running using backups.
Unfortunately, we had to go way back until April 14 to get a working backup. (I don't know all the details, but it appears something went sideways on neon).
We're all wiped out right now. When we have rested and had a chance to discuss things, we'll post an update.
In the meantime, please join me in thanking mechanicjay and TMB for all they did to get us up and running again!
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Saturday May 22 2021, @04:08PM
Hard disk space for a text-only site? I have a 4 terabyte drive I paid $200 for a couple of years ago, saw a 2 tb thumb drive advertised for fifty bucks recently. ALL the Star Trek series and movies are on my $200 drive, all the Star Wars movies (and hundreds of other full length movies), a dozen multi-year TV series, all the rest of my files (music, photos, books) and it's still nearly empty. Five of them would hold the entire Library of Congress.
Thanks to those who worked to fix it. I just looked, the last of my journals listed was from January. Hope the missing ones come back.
mcgrewbooks.com mcgrew.info nooze.org