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!
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