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We are back....... We have the most recent data base but a month old backup of the site files.... Still working on it but thanks for your patience!!
Whew!!!!!!!!
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Welcome back!
Wow... Never really messed with ISA slots. Does your company not have an equipment replacement cycle? The company I work for gets servers with 3 year warranties, and we replace the servers 5 years after purchase. 8 years seems a little long, but if it relies on legacy hardware, I guess there is no other way around it.Great!
Yeah, server crashes are nasty, even with backups... I used to have my exchange server crash about once a year until I replaced it... It was only 8 years old, raid 5, ide hard drives, isa slots galore... man were those the days
cbzdel
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we had some sort of weird failure at work 2 days ago..
the building had a power surge and killed (2) work computer power supplys, the server power supply, and fried one of the server hard drivers, then our large format plotter has now stopped working!
everything was on surge protectors to, its weird!
the building had a power surge and killed (2) work computer power supplys, the server power supply, and fried one of the server hard drivers, then our large format plotter has now stopped working!
everything was on surge protectors to, its weird!
That's why we went UPS all the way, with all the construction that was going on here years ago, some dumba$$ contractor would take out the power/data lines almost every week. After losing several power supplies like you, we started putting all on UPS and haven't had an issue since. Even just enough to last through a few minutes blackout. We even had one issue where a contractor cut through half the phase to the main transformer, so all our equipment was "running" on about 60 volts and wasn't happy.
Oh, and no, we don't have any policy on replacement cycles. It's fix it as needed, replace if it can't be fixed. The headaches of changing on a regular basis isn't worth it. Not much of what we have is "critical", i.e. if a server's down for a day it won't hurt our work (just my ears from every single person calling to let me know a servers down)
Those were my thoughts as well. I am addicted to this site. I was wondering what happened until I tried going to the FZ6 forum and there was a notice explaining a server crash, so I figured that was what happened here too. Again, thanks for getting all us addicts back online!
Thanks Dennis for getting us up and running again! :steve::thumbup: Your admin skills are worthy of a medal. Best of any of the forums I belong to!
I was really worried that my friends had abandoned me. I had new threads to start, but now I can't remember what they were...
I was really worried that my friends had abandoned me. I had new threads to start, but now I can't remember what they were...
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Due to a.. MYBAD... we are back to the 4:00PM today version of the DB.. STUPID MISTAKE ON MY PART!!! using mysql instead of mysqldump while doing a fast before bed backup I did a restore of the 4PM backup....^@*#@*@#(*@#
SORRY GUYS!!!!!!!!!!
SORRY GUYS!!!!!!!!!!