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Cavedude, keep us informed as to the servers status. If you do indeed need to purchase new hardware let us know. I don't have tons of money, which is why I play free EQ, but I would not hesitate to paypal you guys a donation to help cover the cost of getting the server back on its feet. If the website comes down again post a link to your paypal here.

BoginDA

No worries. If it's fixable, then great. We will rebuild.

If not, yes, the offer still stands cave, if that is what you are referring to.

Spoon: My terminology was a bit confusing, I'm sorry. "rebuilding" is generally reserved for RAIDs with parity. I think what it came down to is without pointing any fingers, the mirror at some point failed us. When the machine was turned on, the one controller wasn't working, so Linux used the mirror drive for /home which isn't current. I was only given partial information, we were more concerned with damage control than why did this happen last night. Either way, once it comes time to decide permanent solutions, I'm going to push for a hardware RAID5 (I would love RAID6, but that's a dream!)

Fingel: The quest status data (which quest are completed, the authors, etc) is safe. The PHP page, however may be lost and would need to be rewritten.

BoginDA: We're not going to worry about donations or hardware until we have more information and when FNW comes back from his trip. Thank you for the nice offer!

renoofturks1: Yeah, we may need to take you up on your offer as a failsafe plan. Thank you very much! I'll contact you and Cantus through PM.

I would like to make it clear that I am going to do everything I can to ensure the server is up by Monday, so sit tight guys, we're almost there!

We're back up, and didn't lose a thing! Enjoy! :)

The website is currently down, but that looks to be a network error.

Sweet! Just in time for the weekend. So much cleaning house, getting my car fixed, eating, etc. :D

Oh man! Such great news!

What wound up being the problem?

Thanks for all the hard work, cavedude. I'll be on as soon as I finish some paperwork.

Before everybody starts saying we're down again, we brought the server down to do a full backup, It'll be back up after we're done :)

HAHA =P I was waiting for the sky to fall from the air and destroy the planet!

I thought it was our 2 earthquakes! :)

They over now? You had me worried there man.

Yeah. 5.6 and a 6.1. The building was swaying and shaking. Pretty cool!

Not cool man, your on the 31st floor!

Just out of curiosity, how long does a full server backup take?

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO............................... . we are down again its noon on saturday................................


NOOOOOOOOOOOOO :(



the tease continues